Land of Bad

Here's an idea for a next level “please answer the phone” movie climax. There is a US airforce base where operators remotely fly reaper drones for guiding delta forces on special ops and dropping precision bombs. Let's give this base just one telephone and hang it in a rest area where staff are watching noisy basketball games. Staff can even mute the ringtone. Now imagine when someone needs to call the base in a life-or-death situation, but no-one answers this phone. Oh boy, what a finale.

Crowe was fantastic, and bargain Hemsworth was very good as well. Some moments were infuriating just to ratchet up the tension, but overall this a B movie with teeth. Good tension and action. 6.9

Land of Bad is a perfectly serviceable time. It’s more of what the B-Movie aesthetic typically falls into. Hemsworth & Crowe are both solid in this, and dare I say I was a little more impressed with Hemsworth than I expected. The action sequences are pretty nice for a $28 million dollar production. The biggest issue aside from the fact it’s fairly bland, The last 20 minutes is unintentionally incoherent. Its execution feels like a complete tonal shift that is way too jarring. Still, serviceable

Solid survivan action by the go-to director of any decent mid-to-low budget flick these days. One could and should point out lots of dated stuff about it politically speaking -- characterization out of a late 90s, early 00s war film, come on --, but everything else looks highly enjoyable, although as plain as expected from a not very ambitious project. Gotta love Crowe as this grumpy drone pilot just trying to do his fucking job and go home while everyone else is too busy watching March Madness.

Pretty good action and a decent watch.

Not so bad for a holiday night

Funniest part was when the USAF intervened to stop the beheading of a child. Other than that total departure from reality, it’s decent specops action. Some of the best looking nighttime shootout sequences I’ve ever seen. The script is cringe in a couple places, story nothing special, and the mission director isn’t even proactive. “I was just home… To bury my father” // “Ah man, sorry to hear. Where you guys close?” They represent the horrors of capture with a shit stained squat toilet lmao

It was very well made and well acted from Hemsworth and Crowe. You really felt invested in the characters as we learn Captain Eddie (Crowe) is on call to go be with his pregnant wife. The brilliance of adding the subplot helped ground the story in a sense of realism. It helped convey how dedicated he is to his craft. The action scenes were top notch as well for the most part. The only small gripe is the use of slow motion for some action scenes as it killed the quick pacing of the movie.

I really enjoyed this film. It's got good action packed film - decent visual effects etc. and its gripping. I also particularly liked the fact there are 2 sub plots going on at the same time, with Captain Eddie (played by Russell Crowe)'s impending wedding to his apparently vegan wife and the mundane domestic issues that get in the way of him running the operation. I like the mix of serious & somewhat silly. Tense and amusing at different times, this a surprisingly decent, entertaining watch.

Does not do anything other war movies haven't done; doesn't make it any less compelling, thanks in no small part to Hemsworth's committed performance. The slow motion was unnecessary tho.

Good movie and action

This movie is going to my top movies to watch. I thought the movie wasn't going to grab me, little did I know it did grab me in suspense.

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Crowe and Hemsworth give good performances, certain action sequences hit, the beginning is really well done, there are well-shot moments and it hits some effective emotional beats. It flirts with some intriguing military shit. Can be tense. It punches above its weight. But I dropped it some points because sometimes it just goes through the motions or gets silly in an effort to find the drama. It doesn't always maintain its momentum but when it does, it's great. Surprised.

Action galore