XoWizIama
Excellent adaptation.
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Zandra
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Kimball
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
dworldeater
Death Before Dishonor is an ultra patriotic and macho 80's action in the same vein as Rambo-First Blood pt.2 and The Delta Force. It is not as good as the films I have just mentioned and is in many ways cliché and little bit on the cheesy side. It is mostly a recruitment poster for the US Marines, but is a good film vehicle for Fred Dryer.(who is best known as Hunter) Death Before Dishonor delivers big on action with some excellent stunts, explosions and shootouts. Fred Dryer may not be the best actor, but he is good with firearms and is athletic and rugged enough to be a good action hero and is convincing as a Marine Corps badass. Director Terry Leonard did a good job as his only gig as director and there is a good support cast with Brian Keith and Paul Winfield. Rockne Tarkington of Black Samson fame did well cast as main baddie Jihad. I remember watching this as a young lad with my father when this originally had its run on cable, while certain elements of the film are dated, it holds up pretty good with most action movies of the same period.
Gmork76
This is so hilarious that the movie is really fun to watch. Here we have the usual stereotypes fighting each other in a fictional middle eastern terrorist nation. The plot is mediocre but the acting is at places really good. Some say that this is the most anti-Arab movie there is, perhaps, but I don't know. I've seen worse anti-Arab and anti -American filth out there. One fun detail is that I for a moment thought I watched Delta Force (1986) when watching this. Same sets. Same Israeli looking Arabs actors. I found this Anchorbay DVD on a yard sale, mint condition. Sadly, the world this movie depicts is close to ours in 2012. War, war and bloodshed......
cuffdaddy
Not a bad movie, I've seen worse. They overplay the "Marine Hymn". They play it about 10 times in the movie but it has some good action scenes. The scene where the terrorists are learning to use plastic explosives is funny, especially the look of relief on their faces when their instructor cuts the det cord before the plastic explodes.
BuzzardHawk
This was typical of the one-sided, unintentionally funny, and jingoistic action movies that came out during the Reagan Administration, and as such, clearly shows its age.See Edward Zwick's "The Siege" instead.
