What a waste of powerful actors & a great opportunity!

Rating: Null/10 (8 April 2000)

While I'm all in favor of the "suspension of disbelief" that the movie-going experience provides, I can't stand it when a movie tries to insult & exploit that opportunity.
Who wrote this mess? This story has more holes in it than ... I'm so mad that I can't even come up with a clever simile.
I'm sitting here trying to remember all of the elements to this story that were so implausible that I'm struggling to determine which parts of this story I found to be the most unbelievable of all.
Could it be trying to believe that Jones & Jackson could pass themselves off as 22-year old USMC 2nd LTs.? (No offense guys, but a 50+ year old man can't come close to portraying someone in his early 20's).
Or maybe it's trying to imagine that the Marines who were already stationed at the embassy would ever allow a situation to degrade so much as to become such a serious threat to the lives of the people that they are charged to protect. (I only counted 6 Marines as the stationed security force at that embassy; I'm sure 6 Marines works well as the security detachment for an embassy in Iceland, but not Yemen!!).
Or perhaps it was the idea that the terrorists would be so willing to use their own women & children as protection from returning fire. (And just how many poorly organized terrorist organizations would be willing to go "toe-to-toe" with 50 Marines in a street firefight?)
The only saving element to this movie was the scenes during the siege of the embassy and the decent efforts put forth by the cast to try and make this movie... worthwhile. (The performances were delivered very well, it's just that the story sucked.)
I could go on, but I won't. I don't want to anymore because this movie has already received too much of my attention, efforts, and money.
If you feel compelled to see this movie, catch it as a matinee or wait for video/DVD. Don't waste a Saturday night & $8.00 on this.