Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines

2014 "The Fight For Freedom Never Ends"
4.4| 1h38m| R| en| More Info
Released: 23 May 2014 Released
Producted By: Film Afrika
Country: United States of America
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Seal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out of the country.

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Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece
Steineded How sad is this?
AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.
Sidath Liyanage I'm assuming this is what happens when a marginally okay director picks up a script from a special needs kid. It's not even a good idea for a charity project but what amazes me is how they got a halfway decent cast, and what seems to be a huge amount of funding and the backing of one of the largest Hollywood production studios all to produce this atrocity. Maybe Hollywood needs to stop for a moment and take a good look at itself. I am aware that there's "movies" out there that are worse, but non of them really irritated me like this one because they clearly had more resources than they deserve to make this pile of garbage.
Jeff After 30 minutes I just couldn't take it anymore. I very nearly bailed after only 10-15 but didn't want to give up that easily. In fairness, it looks like the production team was really TRYING here, and there really is some pretty good cinematography, and pretty cool visuals. They clearly had a decent budget and were trying to make good use of it, with many elements that might have been high-production value, but were just trashed with poor direction. I'm not blaming the actors - they were OK when they had good direction and decent lines. This was a massive fail by the director - it was beyond his abilities - and then some. What just KILLED this movie for me, was some early fight scene - and it HAD been pretty interesting - to me. Part way into the scene they chose to suddenly incorporate some kind of incredibly inappropriate gangland rap music as the score. Really? Are you KIDDING ME? At that moment I lost my enjoyment and just never got it back. Well gosh I just hope that I've got the minimum # of lines to allow this to be posted because this has gone on long enough and it's time to find something worthwhile to do. Maybe killing zombies? Hmmmm ...Good luck! And move on ... this isn't worth your time.
baergy The movie is about a group of Navy Seals that have to rescue a white lady somewhere in Africa who has information about Al Queda and uranium mines. This is followed by gunfights and explosions and a pretty predictable set of twists in the story line. The cover picture shows Tom Sizemore, a decent actor known for playing gruff military types in Saving Private Ryan and BlackHawk Down as well as a handful of other A list high budget films. He's never the lead actor but usually the right hand man or best friend of the lead. The cover art has him in military gear, rifle at the ready and looking like most of the characters he plays. His name has first billing in the details for the film. But he's not the main guy. He's the one sort of well known actor that you shell out some extra money to get in your film so that you can have one recognizable face on the cover of your DVD so some poor fellow like myself gets suckered in and says, "I know him from Saving Private Ryan and BlackHawk Down, I'll give this film a chance". For the record this is not the first second or even third time I've been drawn into a movie in this way, Val Kilmer owes me dearly for time spent watching Dead Man's Bounty. Don't touch that movie unless you absolutely have nothing better to do and are looking to punish yourself in the worst ways. Back to Seal Team 8. Tom is not the lead, he is the old commander that looks at large TV screens of satellite footage in a hanger someplace and says things like, "we don't leave our men out to dry" or "I don't care about rules/ orders those are my boys out there", and in that capacity he does alright. The movie itself is as generic as they come. This is the movie that was made after someone watched Tears of the Sun, Blood Diamond and Black Hawk Down back to back and thought they could take a stab at a movie about American Special Forces in Africa. Throughout the film my subconscious was logging which scenes were copied or very slightly changed from the other films listed above, and that works out to just about half the film. The dialogue is pretty weak and consists of all the usual military terms that you hear in war movies like " cover me" and "tangos at 3 O'Clock" but seemingly thrown out at random with no reaction from the Seal team mates being communicated with. The special forces guys also communicate stealthily using hand signals and again things aren't quite right. The only gesture used in the film is a closed fist pointed in various directions, and seems to mean take cover, flank them, suppressing fire, follow me and just about every other thing under the sun. On top of this, that stealthy closed fist of communication is often returned with a quiet shattering half shout that lets me, the perplexed viewer know just what exactly that last fist was telling these fellows to do. The Seal team takes time to stand in the open and huddle backs to the enemy while under fire, to talk, or mourn Bubba's untimely passing. They kneel and impart words of comfort and conduct themselves in just about every way that may get you shot if people are shooting at you. Slow motion is used in this more than the Matrix or any John Woo film but not to highlight anything cool or dramatic. It's just used. If a guy stands or ducks or steps slow motion is thrown in. Machine gun firing? Slow motion of spent casings is a must. It feels as though there was an electrical issue with the camera and the slow mo feature just randomly flicked on and off throughout. All of this is not the worst part of the film. I can be, and often am, completely happy to watch movies that leave my brothers in awe of my ability to check my brain at the door. The worst part of this film is that it takes itself seriously. It wants to be taken on the same level as Saving Private Ryan. But it also really wants to be a cool action movie and just fails so completely at both. Now having completely badmouthed this film I have to give it some quick pieces of praise. One, the aerial shots of landscapes are quite good. Two, they did not use any of that shaky camera nonsense you can clearly understand what you're watching even if that something is a mess, three, of all the things they got wrong with this film at least most of the actors did maintain proper trigger discipline. As the owner of firearms that is something I can't help but see in every film I watch and I was surprised to see this mess of a movie get that right when most movies of any budget get it wrong. Finally if you have friends over and want a movie to laugh at, mock, or talk over and aren't fussy, this may actually be a fun one to catch
david-rivera-988-611252 When I first seen the title and cover of DVD I was impressed, but like most other reviewers I feel this movie was pretty bad. The action was too fake. Also, it took more than half the movie to put all the plots together. Even though it was only one and a half hours I had to stop watching it a few times as I lost interest. I would say this was a mix of a cheap sci-fi and action movie. No wonder it didn't make it to theaters and went straight to DVD.The ending was dragged out a bit too long and for me it was not to conclusive. I think they could have given the viewer a better understanding as to what happened with the characters etc.

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