Yes, like everyone said, its a Die Hard clone like many action films of the 90's. While sifting through my VHS collection for something dumb to watch, I found one and dumb I got. But the funny sort of dumb that when watching with a group of friends, becomes a fun experience that creates a communal taunting of this... not horrendous... but silly film. My friends and I personally enjoyed it, out of morbid curiosity, but I have a feeling that watching it alone would make you want to put your head through a wall.
It was not an outright clone of Die Hard, same basic plot with some specific/almost exact copies that are admittedly out order. Group of "mercenaries" take over building, take hostages, ulterior motive for doing so, blah blah blah, you know the plot of Die Hard so just replace an office building with a chemical plant. What is funny though is they seem to cram in as many visually similar events to Die Hard in the first 20 minutes as they could. Shooting a rocket at police vehicle, attacking a police car to get the entire force on the scene, black officer who communicates with the inside, a quasi are shaft scene, references to John Wayne, the main villains' name even rhymes with Hans Gruber (from Die Hard).
The whole movie is just hilarious, if you look at it from the perspective. The acting is all over the place, which is truly a thing to behold. Upon discovering the dead bodies of their fellow "mercenaries", they react with an "oh jeez" with the literal inflection of an 8 year old who dropped their sandwich in the playground sand (everyone watching audibly laughed the first time). The main villains' acting is that over the top, absurd acting of John Malkovich performance as Cyrus the Virus in Con Air (you know if you know). Its all just so laughable combined with the stiff and emotionless car wreck that is Jeff Wincott.
Combine all of this with laugh out loud filmmaking misfires such as every set other than the factory looking like a student's film project, to blatantly obvious ragdoll dummies being thrown over ledges, to smaller things like Jeff killing the first merc and not taking the mercs gun and continuing the film unarmed because.... yeah we get it you can do martial arts. The dialog? Lets not go there, I'm no Hemmingway but I can spot writing so amateurish I could have done it better myself.
So in summation, if you are looking for an explosive action film to watch; don't. But if you're THAT bored and got some possibly not sober friends, its a funny watch.
