5/10
Die Hard In A VA Hospital
4 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I saw "Assault on VA-33", starring Sean Patrick Flanery-Dexter_tv, Saw:The Final Chapter; Michael Jai White-Arrow_tv, The Dark Knight; Gina Holden-Sand Sharks, Saw:The Final Chapter and Mark Dacascos-John Wick:Chapter 3-Parabellum, Codename:The Cleaner.

This is a low budget Die Hard want_a_be. In fact, it should have been called, 'Die Hard in a VA Hospital'. Sean plays a veteran suffering from PTSD. Luckily, his wife Gina is a psychiatrist that works at the VA hospital he goes to. Unluckily, she is not his doctor, because that would be unethical. A high ranking military official is coming to see Gina-she talks to PTSD sufferers, just not her husband-and a bad guy, and his hired muscle, including Mark, take the hospital hostage. Sean notices some pretty henky things-bad guys with guns trying to look like hospital staff-and calls the police but the police chief, Michael, doesn't believe him. Michael thinks Sean is delusional-he is at the hospital, remember?-and dismisses him. Bruce Willis......I mean Sean, has to take out the bad guys, one by one and save everyone, including his wife, all the while having PTSD flashbacks. I like Sean and he does hold his own in a fight he has with Mark, but he just needs some better scripts. For you wrestling fans, Rob Van Dam plays one of the bad guys but he is wasted here; all he does is sit in a van being a lookout. He doesn't fight anyone, he doesn't shoot anyone.... In fact, I don't think he even gets out of the van.

It's rated "R" for violence and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 30 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD or even rent. If you really want to watch it, I'd wait until it comes to cable.
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