07-11-2018, 10:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-11-2018, 10:29 PM by Drunk Monk.)
Of course you know this film because it's the 7th highest grossing film in the world so far for 2018. #1. Infinity War #2. Black Panther #3. Jurassic World #4. Incredibles 2 #5. Deadpool 2 #6. Ready Player One and this is #7. Yup.
This is the 2nd in Director Dante Lam's Operation film franchise. It's got the PLA behind it so that means a lot of hardware - mortars, grenades, tanks, copters, mortars, drones, lots of soldiers and everything is full-auto. It's starts with Somalia pirates and then moves into the desert for lots of explosions. Lots. Big Booms. Lotsa of them. So many big booms. An orgy of explosions. Which is sufficiently entertaining to some degree. There's a plot to rescue hostages and to recover some yellowcake and a recipe for a WMD dirty bomb. But who cares about that? A crack team of 8 soldiers have to get through 150 terrorists. Explosions, man, lots of explosions. The bulk of the end of this film is solid firefights. And it gets sanguineous, so very sanguineous. There's more bloodshed in this than all six of the higher grossing films. At a certain point, towards the end, it goes to some new places in terms of ultravi. Fresh blood. And explosions.
It's long, another 2.5+ hour flick, and there's moments of irrelevant English, but if you get to the final fight, you will be rewarded with new tasty ultravi. Personally, I think Operation Mekong is a better film - it's more panoramic and goes to some grittier places with the plot. This film has its moments of total badassery but it just didn't hold together as well for me.
This is the 2nd in Director Dante Lam's Operation film franchise. It's got the PLA behind it so that means a lot of hardware - mortars, grenades, tanks, copters, mortars, drones, lots of soldiers and everything is full-auto. It's starts with Somalia pirates and then moves into the desert for lots of explosions. Lots. Big Booms. Lotsa of them. So many big booms. An orgy of explosions. Which is sufficiently entertaining to some degree. There's a plot to rescue hostages and to recover some yellowcake and a recipe for a WMD dirty bomb. But who cares about that? A crack team of 8 soldiers have to get through 150 terrorists. Explosions, man, lots of explosions. The bulk of the end of this film is solid firefights. And it gets sanguineous, so very sanguineous. There's more bloodshed in this than all six of the higher grossing films. At a certain point, towards the end, it goes to some new places in terms of ultravi. Fresh blood. And explosions.
It's long, another 2.5+ hour flick, and there's moments of irrelevant English, but if you get to the final fight, you will be rewarded with new tasty ultravi. Personally, I think Operation Mekong is a better film - it's more panoramic and goes to some grittier places with the plot. This film has its moments of total badassery but it just didn't hold together as well for me.
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