Ben
Meyers’ rating: 4.8|5.0 Stars ìììì
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Storyline
After
a Nigerian rebel uprising, United States Navy Seal Lieutenant A. K. Waters
(Bruce Willis) receives command to lead his team into the Nigerian jungle to rescue
and evacuate Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks (Monica Bellucci) and her colleagues, Mission
Priest (Pierrino Mascarino), Sister Grace (Fionnula Flanagan), and Sister
Siobhan (Cornelia Hayes O’Herlihy), from the hospital/mission where they serve.
When the Navy Seal team arrives, Dr.
Kendrick requests that her patients be included in the rescue attempt. Patients,
able to walk, accompany the Navy Seal team and Dr. Kendricks on the 7 ½ mile
trek to the helicopter evacuation point. When they arrive for evacuation,
Lieutenant Waters follows through with his original order to primarily evacuate
Dr. Kendricks and leaves all patients on ground. The evacuation flight path
includes a view of the now destroyed mission/hospital compound where all
remaining personnel, who voluntarily remained to care for the patients who could not travel, have been ruthlessly murdered by rebel troops.
Ignoring his primary directive, Lieutenant Waters returns to the evacuation
point, loads as many of the abandoned patients, who had initially traveled into the jungle, into the helicopter as he can,
and asks his team to lead the rest of the patients through the jungle to a safe
area. Rebel troops pursue as the Navy Seal team endeavors to find a safe point
where they can be evacuated.
Additional Thanks
Best
Work for Director Antoine Fuqua. Thank you to Executive Producer Joe Roth for
making the film possible. Additional characters/cast include: James ‘Red’
Atkins (Cole Hauser), Ellis ‘Zee’Pettigrew (Eamonn Walker), Kelly Lake (Johnny
Messner), Michael ‘Slo’ Slowenski (Nick Chinlund), Demetrius ‘Silk’ Owens
(Charles Ingram), Danny ‘Doc’ Kelley (Paul Francis), Jason ‘Flea’ Mabry (Chad
Smith), and Colonel Idris Sadick (Malick Bowens).
Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?
Yes.
Definitely. A special ops movie with Bruce Willis that is superb. Period.
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