The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point

Simply put. This movie is absolute garbage. There is zero military accuracy whatsoever. There are all kinds of giant plot holes, holes so large you can drive a Mack Truck through. Everything is completely wrong with this movie from top to bottom. If I had to see one more piece of stock footage of that aircraft carrier or the jets flying to nowhere in particular, I think I would have vomited.

Before you say to yourself, "This guy just hates it because he was in the Marines", let me explain: I can handle an inaccuracies in "military" movies, but honestly, I can't think of one thing they did right except for maybe calling their superiors "Sir".

This film is a stinker. Don't even rent it on a lark, do not watch it if you see it coming on cable. You'll be dying to get the time you spent watching it back.

I thought it was a pretty good movie overall. My friends and I made a night of it and rented a bunch of these sorts of b-movies, and I have to say this is better than the original "hunt for eagle one." yeah, the plot is laughable at points, but it isn't a badly made movie- like, the music is cool, and the direction seems good. I really liked Mark Dacascos - he's better here than on Iron Chef America. Theresa Randle was good too. Nice seeing a tough girl rather than a victim.

Yeah, like kungfu said the random additions of nightly news shots and the CGI are pretty bad. They don't really serve any purpose, unless you wanted to make a drinking game out of the movie. But whenever the actors are actually in the action and they don't have to use cartoon planes to show what's going on, it's pretty thrilling. I liked the beginning sequence, it got me hooked.

Basically, this is a fun movie. It's not Saving Private Ryan, but it's still has it's good points. When you want something escapist, you can't go wrong with this.

THE HUNT FOR EAGLE ONE: CRASH POINT is the follow up to the original HUNT FOR EAGLE ONE film. These are war movies starring B-movie action hero Mark Dacascos and shot in the Philippines by long-time exploitation producers Roger Corman and Cirio H. Santiago. The first film was a drivelling mess of badly-directed nonsense, but to my surprise this sequel isn't too bad.

Let's get this straight, however: by mainstream standards, this is poor. The storyline is hackneyed and predictable and the direction is hardly adequate. In addition, the acting is wooden across the board, including that of Theresa Randle (who returns from the first outing) and newcomer Jeff Fahey, who should know better.

Even so, this is mildly entertaining to a degree. There's a greater emphasis on close quarter combat than in the first film, including a couple of decent fights between Dacascos and various villains. The violence has also been amped up, making this more of an all-round guy's flick. Hardly what I could call good, solid entertainment but it passes the time if you're in the mood.

Not bad if you just want to see straight action. The gun battles and fighting sequences were great and also extensive. The explosions looked surprisingly good as well (and there are quite a few of them). The flight sequences seemed low budget, but this is a straight to DVD movie after all. I am a Mark Dacascos fan (ever since Brotherhood of the Wolf) and was glad that he was in a leading role and got to do some fighting. Even though he was playing a marine who did mostly physical stuff he managed to make the character shine through. I wish that Theresa Randle (the other star of the film) made more appearances. Overall, it had its cheesy moments but they were probably outweighed by raw and gritty moments of excitement.

This movie was on the TV at my automechanic while I was waiting for a car repair. This made the time go so much longer... if I didn't need the car repairs, I would have walked out simply because of this movie.

It is just so bad. The acting is bad. The dialog is even worse. The accuracy is laughable. The constant repeats of the same stock footage is almost comical, if the movie just wasn't so bad.

I've never reviewed a movie before, but I actually joined this site in the hopes that I could warn others away from spending their time watching this movie. I consider it my duty as a human being to keep people from getting dumber for having seen this.

Unless you are 8 years old, this movie will make no sense to you and you will be sad for having wasted a part of your life by sitting through it. I am seriously considering a new automechanic now...