Heroes and Cowards

British Special Forces soldier Lea Anderson is haunted by her job and hounded by nightmares. She goes on one more mission against terrorists, but it is corrupt to its core. This is a lot of unknown actors and some filmmaker named Harald Franklin. He has a questionable list of credits. The actors don't excite me either. The British commander is downright silly. I'm willing to sit through this for the first half until we get to the big mission. Apparently, they are not taking prisoners. It is a kill-em-all mission. At which point, I have a question. Why not just bomb the place to smithereen? They could set up some blocking forces to prevent the terrorists from escaping, but the obvious choice is to drop bombs on them. As for the mission as presented, the British soldiers are doing some really dumb things. It's too dumb. After the mission, I don't really care. I can maybe buy Lea as a brainwashed Manchurian Candidate. It is all rather dumb and I can't take it.

The answer is no, they would've done a much better job! Writer, producer and director Harald Franklin needs to keep his day job. Firstly, has he heard of the sponge that goes over microphones? It's the thingy you use so your audience can hear the dialogue instead of the wind. The entire sound was horrible and poorly edited - if it even was. The score was constant, annoying, loud and unfitting and was at least double the volume of the dialogue. His directing on every level was atrocious, including failing to direct his cast and his scenes. The screenplay was like blindly taping together a shredded script. It was convoluted, riddled with plot and technical issues and the story made no sense. There were too many unnecessary and long dragged out scenes that I ended up forwarding thru most of them. The 94 min runtime felt like 3 hours with the slow pacing and horrible story. I'm guessing it was meant to be some lame political statement? The kill-shot S/VFX, and the acting were the only redeeming qualities, and even that was sub-par. Franklin needs to pay for some "Film School 101" classes before he attempts another production. Probably the worst film I've seen this year. A very generous 3/10 from me

Worst movie ever. Acting, writing and directing .... bad bad and bad. Anyone who gave this movie higher than a 1 is being kind or saw a different movie...

Ooowh my, i was looking so much forward to this movie. What a waste of my time. The story is credible, but the acting and directing is really bad. Soldiers dont go in to combat like that and they dont retreat like that when you have the upper hand and best position to encounter the enemy. Even my grandpa is moving better than these soldiers. If you use actors for this kind of movies please get actors would had have basic combat training. A big no go, i didnt even finish the movie, its to annoying.

I found this a confusing mess. Yes lots of action but who is killing who? Some of the near first assault scenes seemed comical - no army would bunch up on a moonlight wharf and proceed like that! Disappointing tbh.