ScoobyMint
Disappointment for a huge fan!
Manthast
Absolutely amazing
Connianatu
How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.
Sabah Hensley
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Matt Kracht
The plot: A former marine, trying to find out what happened to his friend, runs up against racist vigilantes.I've never actually been that big of a Val Kilmer fan, but I'm willing to watch his movies. Unfortunately, as some people have already mentioned, this movie shares more than a few similarities to Steven Seagal's direct-to-video movies. It's got a left-leaning political message, an aging and out-of-shape movie star, and some truly awful dialogue.I'm not going to lie. This is not a good movie. It's completely lacking in subtlety, one of the characters goes on a long political rant in the middle of the movie, and the fight choreography was not very impressive. However, I agree with the politics, I like Gary Cole, and I guess I'm a sucker for these cheesy direct-to-video movies. I'm willing to overlook a lot of things as long as I don't get bored.I can't really recommend this movie to other people, but I found it a lot more tolerable than most reviewers. If you're a liberal, you're looking to waste 90 minutes, and you're a fan of Val Kilmer... well, maybe then you might want to see this movie, but you'd still have to be pretty desperate.
vitaleralphlouis
This could have been an enjoyable action picture for Americans (we 50%) who respect and love our soldiers, and admire their ability to get a tough job done; BUT..........Val Kilmer plays a Special Forces veteran, home from Iraq, who goes to Arizona looking for his buddy, where he'll eventually find a load of trouble from a bad guy named Rhodes. What spoils the movie is the Liberal Democrat viewpoint that the Iraq War was/is being fought for the sole purpose of profit for war racketeers like this guy Rhodes. Mr. Rhodes, we are to believe, is a typical Republican. Worse, we are told the entire Border Security problem is for the sole purpose of more profiteering and that the Minuteman volunteers are a bunch of henchmen on the take from the likes of Rhodes. Can anybody say George Soros? Can anybody say Obama? Cut-n-run Democrats might enjoy this but they ought to just be embarrassed by it.
kaeng
This movie sucked. I mean... wow. I surely didn't expect a masterpiece. But the actual level of suckitude left me speechless and almost breathless, as if my body was trying to rescue itself into sweet unconsciousness. It reminded me, and heavily at that, of Steven Seagal. But not the Seagal of "Under Siege" or "On Deadly Ground", who we all came to love. No, I mean the Steven Seagal who brought us straight-to-video suckfests like "Black Dawn".Val Kilmer, like Seagal, is just a blimp, floating through the foggy remains of a story, while it rains wooden puppets. Who of course are the other actors in my weird little analogy.Every little thing in this movie is bad and sucks in ways where there are no more words to articulate a warning. So let me just say this: DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE! Thank you for your attention.
jsorenson777
The good guys are good and the bad guys are real bad. Val Kilmer plays a one-legged Billy Jack in a nice twist on a story that will continue forever. Former special forces bad-ass who doesn't want to fight no-more gets roped into an evil environment (with a Dick Cheney clone as Darth Vader) and he finally gets pushed a little too far. He moves fast invisibly "Like a ghost" - with one leg. Works as well here as in old-fashioned radio theater.Low-budget and thus sparse but well done with myriad close-ups and all characters as caricatures. There is no pretense of realism and thus it works as a comic book on screen. Screenplay, direction, camera work and acting are all at least interesting.
