497e39180f A group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back…but hell awaits them. I just can&#39;t find the words… Reading the title can make you understand already what type of a movie it is. And yes, it&#39;s a comedy. Really! Nobody can make a serious flick like that, the action sequences we&#39;re more realistic in &quot;Hot shots&quot;(I&#39;m not being ironical) I&#39;ll just concentrate on the military point of view. <br/><br/>A) the main character is supposed to be a bad-ass retired major. What kind of a leader would take into his team a psychopathic woman, a black serial killer/rapist,a skinhead, a Mexican gang member, a black gang member and some guy with who&#39;s martial arts he was just impressed with. What the hell was the criteria that he chose them for? He was not able to predict that there might be a few problems in the team? Rapist vs girl; skinhead vs blacks&amp;Mexican; black vs Mexican etc. <br/><br/>B) why are the Americans using an AK-47 and the Vietnamese M-16&#39;s?(using an AK-47 would be logical if you would want to use the enemy&#39;s ammo, but its kind of a fail if they&#39;re using a different caliber weapon) + where did the Vietnamese get Humvees and Huey&#39;s and M60&#39;s and M72&#39;s? Vietnam war leftovers? :S <br/><br/>C) if the major wants 6 people in his team, I think he could be able to find 6 ex-soldiers in a prison, no? A 40 year old veteran would for sure be a better choice than a guy who doesn&#39;t even know how to use a gun. D) the major trained them to be soldiers in 1 day. impressive! <br/><br/>E) well actually you can see the results in the entire movie, they don&#39;t have the best shooting techniques in the world :D the Mexican runs around the forest with 2 pistols, shooting berserk; the black guy shoots half the time an M4 from 1 hand and kills a lot of Vietnamese… again - just impressive. Oh yeah, if a helicopter arrives, obviously the best technique is that everybody takes their gun in one hand and shoots in the air. <br/><br/>F) blood. incredible how much blood a skinhead can lose before falling down. any normal person would be in shock/unconscious from this huge blood loss, but not this guy, he can run at the same time and sometimes shoot back(PS! i loved his swastika tattoo :D some freehand drawing with black permanent marker) <br/><br/>I&#39;m too tired to think about this movie any more. just stay away from it, i think the writer was drunk/stoned and wrote it in 1 night. i enjoyed &quot;mega shark vs giant octopus&quot; 10x more. This movie is a stupid and cheesy 90&#39;s copy of classic &quot;Dirty Dozen&quot;. Unfortunately Michael Dudikoff (&quot;American ninja&quot;) is no Lee Marvin (&quot;Delta force&quot;) and &quot;Soldier boyz&quot; is one bad movie. Everything sucks here – story , acting , dialogues , action scenes <br/><br/>The American youth here is nothing , but a bunch of stereotypes. The violence on streets , street gangs , violence in family – this are all serious problems , but I doubt that any viewer will take this movie seriously. I mean who would care for such one dimensional characters like white skinhead (with a ridiculously fake swastika tattoo) , tough Latino girl , black &quot;Monster&quot; (that&#39;s his nickname !) rapist or Latino macho guy ? <br/><br/>The story is not one bit believable. Dudikoffexperienced ex soldier wouldn&#39;t have any problem to find ex-soldiers or at least mercenaries to do the job. Instead he risks the life of untrained and emotionally unstable bunch of psycho teenagers that don&#39;t like each other. It only gets dumber later , when he needs only 1 day to train them properly. After one day they are bad ass ! How cool is that ? <br/><br/>I don&#39;t remember the last time when I saw such badly done shootouts. The actors don&#39;t know at all how to carry the guns ! I love the scene when somebody shoots from the right side and the whole group starts shooting on the left side ! There is also one scene that rip-offs &quot;Platoon&quot;. Do I have to mention that it&#39;s justcheesythe whole movie ? <br/><br/>Michael Dudikoff is very wooden. He tries hard to be an experienced bad ass soldier , but he just isn&#39;t convincing in the role. He doesn&#39;t even look old ! Yes , they gave him grey hair , but that&#39;s too little to convince the audience. The best performance here comes from Cary Hirouki Tagawa (&quot;Showdown in little Tokyo&quot;) experienced actor who specializes in playing villains.<br/><br/>The funniest thing here is that it could actually be a decent and fun B-class movie if it was done right. Well , at least it&#39;s laughable. I give it 2/10.
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