24 Hours

Another dreadful, bargain basement action thriller that looks like it was made for peanuts (and it probably was). This one is notable for featuring a bunch of middle-aged actors who were once considered happening, including Tom Sizemore, Michael Pare and Jason London, but those years were decades past and now it's all just a little sad. This one plays out a DIE HARD scenario with a group of terrorists taking hostages in Los Angeles and an elite SWAT unit sent in rescue them. It's woodenly acted, poorly directed and has no real reason to tune in; in other words, a typically superficial and soulless production.

I was fairly intoxicated when I put on this random pick n mix movie, thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

A brainless straight to DVD action movie starring Tom Sizemore, Mischa Barton and Jeremy London this cashes in on the popularity of the television series 24 (2001).

Known as both 24 Hours and SWAT: Unit 887 it follows a generic cliched action formula involving kidnapping, a terrorist plot and everyone just looks like they don't want to be there.

Even when "Action" takes place it's boring as hell. Take the credits off it, cut forward a couple of years and I'll bet even the director couldn't identify if he was involved in it. It's THAT generic.

Awful stuff which further insults you with its open ended finale.

The Good:

Nope

The Bad:

Cliched

Dreadful script

Everyone looks bored

Mischa Barton

Cliffhanger ending with almost no chance of a sequel

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

I should not be allowed to pick a movie when drunk

I thought I was watching the movie S.W.A.T. and they were doing one of those things where they make you think it's the movie, really it's just a bunch of terrible acting on some dumb TV show. Nope, it was just a bunch of cheap acting on a dumb tv show. It sort of looks like they got someone who knew know to make a show, but then gave them like a $1000 budget, and they decided to use the most generic things and locations as possible.

You find this incredibly bad, atrocious movie!!!! I just don't know what happened to Sizemore's movie career after "Saving Private Ryan" but this thing - sold under two tittles - is a huge joke. I'm thinking that I could use it as a lesson how to not make a movie on my film classes. You can even find ridiculous failed camera movements that nobody bothered to repeat. Acting and actor direction is so bad you don't know if you are watching a nonsense comedy or an action pic. You must watch it if you have the time and the need for weird crazy stuff.

Film is slow and tedious, the action never starts and is very little, to save only the good cast with first of all Tom Sizemore, who here plays as usual very well the bad but in a movie like this is wasted, the other interpretations are negligible belonging Chris Woodward Jr. holding well the title role; party support for Mischa Barton and Michael Pare, but with a cast like that could be done much better. The film is low budget and it shows, but at least you could bet on the action scenes which are very few, and even the plot is repeated and obvious, essentially copying ugly and cheap Die Hard; No watch this, no watch this if you love the action movies!