A Navy Seals team is sent to rescue some Americans who are being held hostage (middle east somewhere). During the rescue, a few dozen Stinger missiles are discovered but not destroyed. So the team is sent back in to destroy them.
Ordered to let their hair down first, they play golf, Boy these guys know how to have a good time. Then it's out again in search of the missiles. They seek out an attractive female journalist who seems to have more accurate information than the CIA. And I sort of lost interest after that.
In an interview, Michael Biehn stated that working on this film was "probably the worst experience of my life". Was watching it one of mine? When I was 14 I would have loved this and related to the 14-year old mentality of the leads. A few decades on, and not being part of this culture, I found little here I could watch easily, and lots that I found annoying. There was no problem with the technical side of the film, and the actors were good. The problems are more fundamental and are due to the script.
Ordered to let their hair down first, they play golf, Boy these guys know how to have a good time. Then it's out again in search of the missiles. They seek out an attractive female journalist who seems to have more accurate information than the CIA. And I sort of lost interest after that.
In an interview, Michael Biehn stated that working on this film was "probably the worst experience of my life". Was watching it one of mine? When I was 14 I would have loved this and related to the 14-year old mentality of the leads. A few decades on, and not being part of this culture, I found little here I could watch easily, and lots that I found annoying. There was no problem with the technical side of the film, and the actors were good. The problems are more fundamental and are due to the script.