Battleground

2012 "The Ambush Begins"
4.2| 1h35m| en
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The war in Vietnam is announced to finish. American troops are withdrawn and the relief of peace echoes through the air. However, as the calm after the storm spreads a sigh of relief, there is something unsettling amidst the forests of North Michigan. A disturbed war veteran remains, but he lives for one reason only - to kill. What would happen if six ruthless men stumbled across him in the eerie deserted forest, after their mass bank-robbery leaves them running from the law with three million dollars? Would they be better off facing the cells of prison or can they escape from the murderer out to get them…?

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Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable
Konterr Brilliant and touching
BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Hazy Davey Dear Mr. Mckay II.Although it is quite obvious that the movie in mention is not good at all (sorry to say that)...I have one question and one suggestion though.Q: Why didn't you blew up the ambulance after bank robbery when robbers switched cars? It is once classic cliché that you should'v definitely use.S: Please, find something else to do, but don't, I beg you, don't make any more movies.Yours truly Hazy Davey from Sydney
brdmacfreak A cheap, totally predictable copy of predator. There was not one surprise in the entire movie. Don't waste your time.The character development is virtually non-existent. The fight scenes are so fake it is amazing that an old running from many machines guns unloading clips doesn't get at the least, winged. Even the "crew" finding a liquor bottle from the 1970s and drinking it is, well, lame.I wish I could get my time back from watching the movie. I kept waiting for it to get better. Don't waste your time.The old man must have been not just a soldier, but an Olympian runner as he manages to beat men half his age, through tunnels while the youngster are above ground hauling butt.Watch the Expendables for the umpteenth time again.
Kyle James-Patrick I'm going to keep this very simple. Imagine you have never had a creative idea in your life, so you watch Predator and decide it's so awesome you're going to remake it, except you don't have a monster, a jungle, special effects, actors, soldiers or talent. This is what Battleground is, a poorly hacked together rip off of Predator (with a bit of Hobo with a Shotgun). Scene for scene, line for line, Battleground tries to wear Predator's shoes and what is baffling to me is how so many people involved in the making of this film could have gone along with it. Was this really how the director wanted it? And they actually spent money to make this? Congratualtions, you've made it that much harder for real film makers to get funding.
chaugnurfaugn-269-83012 This is a bizarre Canadian production that openly steals not just style, characters and scenes but even entire lines from the Michael Mann movie, Heat.The plagiarism is so blatant that I would encourage Mann to sue the pants off Neil Mackay and his writer, wait for it, Sean McAulay. Yep, that's right Neil/McAuley (the very name of the lead protagonist/antagonist in Heat).After the weak set up introducing the Vietnam vet, we are treated to a somewhat exciting presentation of the bank robbers fleeing the scene of their crime in... an ambulance. One of their number is shot. The group dump the ambulance for a getaway car (Mackay - assuming that's his real name - falls short of having them plant an explosive on the ambulance and set it on fire). It's like someone took the script of Heat, chopped it up and replaced bits and pieces to make something new but extremely familiar.Several shot compositions are not just reminiscent of Heat but are IDENTICAL, from the way the lead role speaks to the way he holds the handset at the public phone booth. "What happened out there?" - "don't ask," I mutter to myself, "you don't wanna know" the guy on screen says. WTF?! If you know Heat (which is a superior production to this pile of tripe in virtually every possible sense) you'll be struck dumb by what is basically an initial copy, stealing bits and pieces of that film before embarking on a pointless and ill-focused killer-in-the-woods set up. Ridiculous.

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