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Summary: Awesome Flick
Review: Didn't see in the movies. But got the DVD and was blown away. Loved it! Great Flick. Lots of action.
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Summary: The Last Bad movie of 2001.
Review: released late last winter, what's really bad about this movie is the bad acting by Wilson, Don Davis's drek of a music score, and Gene Hackman playing the part of a burned out General, maybe he was just burned out by having appeared in this and three other turkey films all in a row. I won't bother seeing a film made by John Moore again.
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Summary: Needed a Re-Write
Review: THE GOOD: Owen Wilson does a fine job as a wise-cracking, Navy navigator. The setting in Bosnia looks and feels right. The basic plot of a downed pilot trying to get to safety provides interest and intensity. THE BAD: The actual story of the chase is mindless. The blow-ups and shoot-em-ups feel like something on the Universal Studios tour. The climactic battle is ludicrous. THE UGLY: The dialog sounds like it was cut in pieces from other movies and comes across as a Saurday morning cartoon. I didn't think it was possible to make Gene Hackman look bad, but the director certainly tried.
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Summary: God Bless the USA
Review: Lord knows at times like this, we could all use something with a little bit of a positive message about the ole US of A. As a proud veteran of the U.S. Army, even though I never served in combat, this movie made me feel proud to be an American. Just like the old song. I went to see this movie with my two kids, both young teenagers, and they sure liked this film quite a bit, so much they even wanted to go see it again. I said maybe we'd just go ahead and get the DVD, since the whole family liked it. Anyhow, the last time that happened was Toy Story 2, so you can see that this is in fact very much a quality movie, not just limited to old veterans like yours truly.
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Summary: TOP GUN, SNIPER, BAT*21, and RAMBO all rolled into one.
Review: I just picked up this film on DVD having never seen it before. I wanted to initiallly but missed it in the theaters. But anyway, I was pleasantly surprised. This military action drama had elements of the movies Top Gun, Sniper, and Rambo. As most should know, that the jist of this movie is that Owen Wilson plays a navigator on a two-seat F/A-18 Super Hornet and he and his pilot are shot down on a Christmas photo-recon mission over Bosnia. The missile evading scene is pretty intense. You haven't seen jet manuevers like that since Top Gun.Now then the USS Carl Vinson gets the word that one of their planes have been shot down. The problem is that the war is supposed to be over due to a peace treaty. To send in a rescue mission and risk confrontation with the Serbs after the treaty would nullify the treaty and extend the war causing even more suffering. So Gene Hackman's character is prohibited from launching a rescue mission. For those that have seen Hackman's 1988 film Bat*21, might recognize some similarities in how the Carrier tells Owen to move from place to place for pick-up that never comes. (In Bat*21, Hackamn played a Colonel that was shot down in 'Nam in which he used an overlay of a golf course on the map in plotting his movements). One of the Serbs pursuing Wilson is a guy with an axe to grind. He carries a high-powered sniper rifle, and we get scenes similar to Tom Berenger's 1993 film Sniper. Wilson runs from him and gets shot at quite often. The film concludes on a high frozen mountain where one of the ejection seats landed. Wilson uses this seat as bait to get the sniper guy out in the open. Wilson suddenly jumps up out of a snow bank and they fight to the death with shades of a Rambo scene. However, the whole Serb army comes rolling in with armor suport and a platoon or two of infantry. However by his time, Hackman has 3 loaded gunship helicopters on the way and they provide close air support against the Serbs. Very fun scene with cool visuals and sounds. This movie uses some very unique camera tricks. There's several flashback scenes and they use reused footage, but from differnet angles and speeds. It is very cool. The picture and sound on the DVD is extraordinary. The picture is very clean and sharp with great blacks and shadow definiton. The sound, while not as good as Super-Bit titles, is very well mixed. In action scenes, the bullets whiz by your head and explosions shake it. This movie is a good showcase for Russian military equipment. At first the F-18 is shot down by an Sa-13 Gopher SAM system. The Serbs also have a couple of actual T-72s and several BMP-1s. This movie was made with full cooperation with the US Navy including military supervisors. So this movie is pretty much technically accurate. Yes, the plot is a bit thin, but how many different ways can you tell a pilot rescue and evade mission?
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Summary: Behind door when realism was passed out
Review: Astonishingly bogus ! I regret I cannot rate it lower than 1 star.
I kept hoping the bad guys would kill the aviator and put me out of my misery watching this turkey. Cinematography, lighting and locations were excellent, but the plot was absurd and the script went from one bizzare farce ( like being able to hear bullets coming when you are the target ) to another ( like the bad guys killing the pilot instead of using him as a hostage ). Then there was the memorable scene where the bad guys were standing within 4 feet of the hero in a flat muddy area, but could not find him. Perhaps the worst was the hero hiding under snow / ice for 15 min and jumping out just at the right moment to off the main bad guy. Maybe our boy had a periscope - that would be no more improbable than the rest of this waste of film. Gene Hackman usually indicates a worth-the-money movie. He should be ashamed.
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Summary: Entertaining
Review: This movie kept me interested the whole time. Very fun to watch... A little bit [unreal]fake at times, but still, great DVD.. Worth getting...
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Summary: Decent Movie, Not Many Extras on DVD
Review: About the movie:
This is a hollywood style action flick, meaning unrealistic. If you like patriotic action movies, you should enjoy this. I really like the movie, but the exagerrated nature of many scenes bothered me. Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson give decent performances. About the DVD extras:
The amount of extras disapointed me. There were supposedly approximately 8 extended or deleted scenes. The amount of new material between all of them probably amounted to around 2 minutes. Most of the "extra" scenes were actually in the movie, but they call it extra because small parts were cut out to get the movie an R rating. Conclusion:
Although I recommend this film for anyone looking for a military action flick, I would not recommend buying the DVD. There are few, if any, worthwhile extras on the DVD and the movie is not one I would want to repeatedly watch.
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Summary: definitely one of my top choices!
Review: not the best military action flick i've seen but definitely will do, good 'nuff that i can't wait til it comes out on DVD, which in fact is in a couple of days....yeeeeehawwww!, i found out it's not a "special edition" or a "collector's edition" so not too sure about the special feature capacity of the dvd version, but i saw the flick in the theatres and reminiscing back to the ending of the movie is all worth the purchase on dvd, typical "good guys always win" type of scenario, but movies are made to ENTERTAIN, not for you to predict and analyze...leave that up to the actors, script writers, agents, director's and producers....watch the flick....be entertained by it and put it back in your collection!....solid 4 stars! way to go Owen and Gene....great oscar caliber performances and a well-done storyline.
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Summary: Unbelievable! (In the bad sorta way...)
Review: I'd like to think I have a strong toleance for bad movies, but this one tested me the whole way. We see Owen Wilson in peril then in the next scene he is inexplicably in the clear. This pattern repeats itself throughout the film. The story also ignores the general struggle to survive. How did he eat or get water? ...
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