One for the previously viewed bin

Rating: 5/10 (14 March 2003)

I'd like to start off by saying this movie was pretty bad. Nicolas Cage was in practically every scene and you just get sick of his character. After that you have the god-awful score to deal with, but at least that balances out somewhat with some decent action scenes. However, are we really supposed to believe that the americans whooped that much ass? The Japanese killed wat, 12 americans in the movie? The americans took more casualties when they were shelled by their own halfway through the movie! Then you have cage, a bloody terminator hosing down wave after wave of japanese (who seem to think its better to run screaming at a man than shoot) with an SMG which seems to have a bottomless-clip. Christian Slater did a farely well job and carried the movie above water, until....well I'll let you find out. Adam beach should be shot out of a cannon, I hoped he would die, but he didn't, his part was terrible, especially when he traunced through the minefield, apparently having a hissy fit renders mines useless. Besides the nitpicking the movie's action scenes were relatively well done aside from the backround music and cages terminator impressions.
5 outta 10