I was very curious about EXTREME HONOR because of the cast, the genre, the fact that is available on YouTube and also because since it has 3,4 I wanted to give it a chance because, maybe it couldn't have been that bad. Boy, I was wrong. Please read the following text.
John Kennedy Brascoe (Dan Andersen) is a marine that at the beginning is seen killing another man in self-defense during a robbery and soon he is thrown out from the Marines because in the accident the son of the robber died. Soon John goes to Samuel Baker (Michael Ironside) for discussing the situation since his son is ill and Samuel says that he can't do anything and that another marine had to enter the unit. John then manages to do a robbery in Baker's mansion with the help of Frank Sparks (Michael Madsen) that go in his caveau and rob anything they can. After lots of nonsense John will find the responsible of the framing and his son, but who cares?
The problems: 1) none of the characters (except probably Madsen's) was relatable or close to be a human being as they all acted like caricatures: Baker was a jerk that even forced two gold diggers to pose like he wanted, Brascoe looked like a huge doofus (and that's why Dan Andersen never made movies after this one) and the rest are quite forgettable. The acting is on par with the qualities of the characters.
2) Some of the actions didn't make a lot of sense, and the editing was all over the place. For istance, when Sparks and his men go for the robbery and (after not showing how they blindfolded Baker) John puts a CD of classical music, and when the heist is over they open a bottle of champagne despite we haven't seen that coming and there was not that much time for taking the bottle safely to the caveaux. After a while a sniper tries to murder Brascoe while he is jogging and even tho the bullet could have hit him istantly, the bullet hits a biker that was a few steps near him. For the sake of the plot of for making the movie even longer? We don't know. And some of the scenes where the bad guys get shot are dizzy. Now I don't know if it's the print that I found on YouTube or the movie itself but I didn't saw Brascoe shooting Baker in the head, but the car door opening and Baker falling to the ground. And especially towards the end there was the VHS marking time, just proof that whoever uploaded it was bored to death too.
3) The entire thing is boring and a chore to sit through, and believe me, after it was over I felt the urge of going to bed. And although it's labeled as an action movie, there isn't even that much action.
After all I said, it's clear I won't recommend EXTREME HONOR to anybody, not even bad movie fans because it's THAT boring and sloppy and might induce some head-ache. Good concept... but bad execution. The recipe for disaster.
