graeylin

I tried to watch this movie today, and couldn't even make it past the first thirty minutes. It wasn't that the acting was bad (it was), or that the plot was poor (a Navy SEAL commander being given charge of an Embassy?), but that the logic and tactics were so hideous, I couldn't stand to watch anymore: The marine corporal flashes a SEAL UNIT ID card: First, he's a marine, not a SEAL. Second, a driver would flash his military ID, not a SEAL ID. Third, no way that guy was a SEAL.

When they first arrive at the embassy, the car just drives right into the grounds: no checks, no ID, no searches. Heck, you can't drive onto the grounds of a government OFFICE complex without some ID checks, and these marines just open the gate to the first black car that heads their way.

During the first attack on the embassy, a marine notifies his gunny that they have an RPG in the street, and no one does a thing! No one sets up to shoot the RPG gunner, no one says a word to anyone else.. they just let him set up calmly in the street, and shoot. Only AFTER the grenade goes through the PLATE GLASS WINDOWS facing the street (with no wire mesh, screens, or bars on them), does the embassy WHICH HAS BEEN UNDER ATTACK already decide to lower their steel window covers.

Also during the rescue, the marines have no orderly retreat/cover fire, and they leave two outside the embassy, about 25 feet from shelter? Twelve marines on the walls to provide cover fire, and not a one can manage to help their two buddies get 25 feet down the street.

I had to stop watching... it was making me ill, just to see the mistakes.

Not sure i understand how the killing of the butterfly by the safari affected evolution/time...

after all, wasn't the entire area where that butterfly lived wiped out by a volcano, a toxic cloud of ash and hot gas, mere minutes after the safari leaves? are we to believe that somehow, that one butterfly out flew a speeding hot gas cloud, and survived the devastation to the area? that somehow, that butterfly flew 40 miles in 5 minutes, an escaped the volcanic debris that wiped out life in the area for decades?

wasn't everything in that area pretty much "free game" for the safari, since it was all going to be wiped out in five minutes anyway?

I cannot wait to see the goofs start on this horrible, horrible movie... The biggest goof had to be paying the writers who came up with this drivel and called it a story. Aggghhhhh Judging from the speed of the swarm crossing Indiana and Illinois, those locusts had to be doing Mach 4 or so... fast little buggers! I was also impressed with the careful military handling of VX.. providing everyone with full face respirators who handled it. Sheesh people, VX is a nerve gas, and is SKIN ABSORBED too... the gas masks wouldn't have made a seconds worth of difference.

I also choked on my drink when a certain person died from being bitten a couple times.. sheesh, I survived bike accidents with more wounds than he had! I want my my time back!

I too picked up Commandos in the budget bin. The movie itself was decent...acting a bit over the top from some of the players, the plot very predictable, and the ending a bit smarmy, intent on teaching us a nice lesson about the horrors of war.

The worst part of the film were the technical details. The US Army dropping paratrooper commandos behind enemy lines prior to Operation Torch (factual error... US Airborne troops were no where near ready for a raid prior to Torch). The obvious use of the 1944 M3 Grease Gun as the weapon of choice for the commandos, a weapon which didn't even see North Africa, let alone North Africa in 1942, the year before it made it to Army usage.

One can forgive the use of US Chaffee and Walker Bulldog tanks repainted in German Afrika Tan (after all, Patton did too), but too many errors upon errors crept into the movie to make it truly enjoyable. For 99 cents and a Saturday afternoon, it will serve. As a great movie, it falls far short.