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Zara Phythian is the responsible for all the stars this review awards the film. She is more physically capable than the men supposedly playing S.A.S, and has more of a screen presence than all of the villains in the film combined. I hope she goes on to do far more, in work that is far more deserving. As for the rest... where do I start? This film was clearly made by a team where the quality was second to anything else. Script, story, logic, even effort, seems so lacking. Much like their "white collar hooligan" films, the sequel was in the works before this one even came out. So that sure isn't by public demand. Looking at the other reviews on here, the public has spoken. If the sequel picks up the slack left by it's predecessor it may surprise us all, but the track record of work does not suggest that will be the case.

So many movies just thrive on mass killing and lack of discretionary use of language to click with the norm of the times. He Who Dares happens to be no different.

To me it did not appeal from the word go. And here are the reasons.

Even a 10 year who has played Call of Duty or Battlefied series of games can tell you that you do aim down the sight and not fire from the hip. Wish the actors were told that.

Secondly now a days there is this new blood thirst in many low budget movies where the villain or the bad guy is glorified by mass murdering in order to achieve his goal. And when all the revenge is built psychologically speaking the valiant hero or one of the survivor in this case, kills the supposedly bad guy with one bullet, leaving the unsatisfied lust in the mind of audience that was generated by the storyline where the bad guy was the angel of death. Seriously ??

The movie is pure waste of time and resources.

Hmm, i do rather watch Power Rangers or Ultraman as action movie than this anytime.

I don't understand why this is like a film produced by amateurs and even worse. There is way too MUCH unnecessary effects used. Slow-motion here, then flash flash there, slow-mo again, and most of the time, it's better without any effect. It feels like someone is getting really hyped about effects and applying it everywhere like a first timer get excited with a new toy.

Then, SAS? Seriously? ONE thing is surely missing in the opening of this film, and it's this line "This is for entertainment purpose only. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental." A real disgrace to the elite soldier community and in this movie, it just seems like gang fights, rather than SAS vs Terrorists.

It's really that bad that i forced myself to write this.

Quite possibly the most inept and ridiculous depiction of the SAS ever committed to fiction. These lads look like they've never staged any operation in the field before. For elite experts, they come across as unwary and amateur. The story could have been marginally interesting, but there are far too many nonsensical actions take by the kidnappers.

What makes this film truly unwatchable, though, is the style! It looks like someone is trying to make a hip music video with unwarranted flashes of light, superimpositions, and jarring effects. Far from capturing a sense of anything (is there any sense to be captured?) this approach simply ends up with us detached from the action and feeling as though it's all being trivialized.

Do. Not. Watch.

Oh what a crap, badly made with a terrible acting, editing and production design. I highly doubt that the actual SAS special forces proceed this way during action, and with such a poor equipment and warfare facilities, with no ballistic helmets(!!!) but who cares? I watched as a cheap one more DIE HARD rip-off. Everything here is lousy, tongue in cheek but I enjoyed it, every minute. There are twelve bad guys at the beginning of the assault and it appears that at least twenty of them are eventually killed all long the film. Search the error.. Many surprises here, many brutal killings and this is the perfect example showing that a piece of crap may be exciting to see; and that doesn't mean that the movie is good. I mostly loved the gorgeous female terrorist. Please if you watch it, don't do it with great expectations, just as an effective grade Z piece of work. Monitor your spirit and eye on what it actually is. Don't try to compare with a major Hollywood feature. And then and only then you'll enjoy it.

The idea behind this film is good even if stolen from an old movie. Simon Phillips is about the only think that stopped me from walking out. The way the SAS is shown is a joke, didn't even get the uniforms correct let alone their standard operating methods. Sure some might say this doesn't matter but watch "Act of Valour" or "Special Forces" both much better movies. The acting in "Acts of Valour" was poor but much more watchable than this is because the special forces team are shown correctly. They apparently even used some ex-seal members. It doesn't look like they even did any research for this let alone consultant ex-members. Once again a lazy approach ruins a potentially great movie.

I've seen some bad films in my life and this ranks up there with the worst of them.

The lead villain over acted so much, he was almost good, he probably has potential if he had a better film to act in.

I was a bit confused at first that I was watching some sort of GCSE media studies project, if that was the case, I might have given it a C...... But it wasn't, I'm really angry with myself for watching this the whole way through, should have gone with with gut instinct and quit after 30 secs.

Nonsense story, plot holes all over the place, extremely am dram acting, massive thumbs down. Half a star!

When i watch a film, whether its at the cinema or at home on a disc. I want to be entertained. Some films do it, some films don't. He Who Dares DID. It has its funny comedic moments, It has its action scenes and it has its basic but definitely interesting plot. Every film doesn't need to try and win an Oscar, but every film should try and entertain the viewer. He Who Dares does it!!! Bring on a sequel. I hear they are working on one. Cant wait to see it. With a great cast including Lorraine Stanley, Ben Loyd Holmes, Simon Phillips and a kick ass action start in Zara Phythian. This is a pretty good UK action film, something we haven't seen in a while.

The title hooked me and I bought this DVD on the strength of the description. This film is not worthy to use this title. The real SAS must have been rolling around the floor laughing at the antics of this bunch of no hopers. The story is very similar to a certain film set in a tower with a off duty cop trying to rescue a hostage. The story had a huge potential to make this a good movie but it let itself down from the first scene and went rapidly downhill after that. If I hadn't spent # pounds of my hard earned money on this I would have turned off after the first ten minutes. If you want to see something better then buy Who Dares Wins with Lewis Collins, it's ten times better than this effort.

I served in the Army, so to see the people who are the height of military achievement being portrayed by the walking jizz rags on screen is insulting , and so are the fake reviews on here, that are shockingly obvious you wonder why they bothered at all.

I done 25 minutes of this abomination.... I couldn't take any more it was that bad. Terrible CGI and obvious Airsoft-Guns..... Obvious because you never see anyone get shot, the "actors" move their shoulders up and down whilst the camera zooms to a face or pans back to something else. You'll see constant bad effects with the camera zooming in and out for no reason coupled with constant bad music which I can only assume the director thought was cutting edge cinematography. If only he at least read a book... Just one book before diving in and clearly not knowing a single thing.

Back to the walking jizz rags..... at the start we have the A.S.S..... Sorry the S.A.S having a Christmas eve dinner..... The guys have clearly never had any military contact in any way as they look like wannabe foot ball players, and the wives.... Wannabe footballers WAGS.

The bad guys are exactly that.... BAD!

Not knowing how to act, the lead bad guy actor plays like something out of Inspector gadget.... Hes more of a cartoon than anything else. The dialogue is atrocious. Don't waste your time.... not even to see how bad it is, its not worth it.

When there are some great independent film makers out there, struggling to get funds, how does something as bad as this even get made? It can't even of looked good on paper can it? No real actors, not even moonlighting soap stars, a plot that just doesn't make any kind of sense and the SAS made to look like they learned their moves from a YouTube teenage kung fu submission. The SAS look incompetent in this, always having time to give moody looks and exposition while they are waiting for one of the bad guys to just shoot them and put us out of our misery. Out hero always seems to think punching someone is a better plan than shooting them. Just dreadful and yet it looks like someone gave them a lot of money to make this. What a waste.

This review contains no spoilers, it would be impossible to spoil the "film" any more than the director / writer / producer and editor has already done. Do Not pay for this film, wait until it gets shown on some obscure free late night z-list movie channel and then watch something else instead whilst safe in the knowledge you haven't wasted 90 minutes of your life. It has no plot, no decent actors, extremely amateur cinematography, lousy sound and dreadful editing - there's also a major sync problem. The SAS are portrayed very badly in this flick leading me to think that no research was done pre-filming, the police and protection squads don't fare much better. I think the writer was trying to copy a lock stock kind of an atmosphere but fails dismally to achieve anything more than a painful to watch embarrassment which has no plot and fails to deliver on almost every level.

......that you can't ever get back 'cause of watching this festering pile of film making pus.

Of all the movies made about special forces this has to be the worst ever,my Gran could have written a more convincing plot and my three year old son could have choreographed more believable fight scene tactics.

If you're into SAS style movies give this one a miss as the producers, directors and script writers (who are now hopefully unemployed and unable to insult us with any more such clichéd tedium)should have stuck with 'my little pony''cause they obviously know chuff all about the military (unless of course their plan was to deliberately insult soldiers) with this brain meltingly unbelievable helmet cheese of a movie.

I've never been motivated to write a movie review but when my senses have been so savagely insulted by such utter, 100%, undiluted excrement I feel it's my duty to warn others.

Never thought a movie could be worse than 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes', but this one is.

AVOID THIS MOVIE AT ALL COSTS

A movie so bad that even the directors mother only rated it 1 star!

I see a lot of reviews on here about slight inaccurate points in the film. Who cares its a film. Its not a documentary and I have to say I haven't had this much fun watching a film since Die Hard. (yes the first one) Whoever played the main bad guy was funny as hell, really liked it, . I highly recommend this film to anyone that wants to be entertained - I was, so much I've loaned my friends the DVD and they loved it too (I want my DVD back now)

Film = fun and He Who Dares was a hell of a lot of fun. Ill be checking out other films made by this crew. I never knew the UK could make action films.

I don't review films often but felt I had to due to the number of negative reviews with 1/10 ratings.

Look this film is flawed in ways too numerous to count but it is not without its good points.

First the bad points: # It uses the SAS name which is a big no no unless you are doing them some level of justice. # The fight scenes (bar the first one) are poorly choreographed, slow, lacking technical skill. # Some very mediocre acting as standard. # Fairly week plot. # Action scenes seem to have pacing problems. # Annoying flashy light effects when changing scene.

Now the good points: # The lead villain has great screen presence, he is psychotic, ruthless, humorous, witty, at times likable, unpredictable, and for his part the acting was excellent; the film is well worth a watch just for this character alone i rate the performance very highly. # Some of the film is deliberately tongue in cheek. # There's a fairly decent fight scene and at parts watchable action. # Its never boring.

If you're expecting The Raid or Die Hard (as it's billed), its not either or even close to either. However it is a half decent popcorn flick and despite its flaws I found it enjoyable. The film tries, it tries to be better than a B-Movie and that's the right direction for small budget British movies, if this film had got a few more of the action elements right (maybe 3 really good fight scenes)it could have really been onto a cult following, but there's no saying the director wont get those elements right next time.