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Ambush (2023)
Terrible sets
This movie started off a bit disjointed, it was hard to figure out who the main hero was. The captain made some ridiculous mistakes that just wouldn't happen, throwing a secret dossier to the ground in an emergency and hiding it in a tin instead of stuffing it down his shirt.
But where the movie really falls down is when the soldiers are forced to enter the tunnels. I've read a bit about these tunnels, they were incredibly narrow and the tunnel rats all had to be really small guys who could only crawl through them. These sets had six footers walking through them with plenty of room, totally unrealistic, but the worst thing was the flat floor, so obviously a studio set.
Flesh Wounds (2011)
Shameless
When this started off I noticed a few goofs like a sergeant wearing a dress uniform in the field and scientists wearing lab coats in the middle of a lake( they're scientists so how else will we know?)
All of these problems just faded away when I got into the main body of the film and saw what a shameless copy of Predator it really was. Die Hard has had its copiers but they at least tried to add something new to the formula but this is obviously a quick slapdash, turn it out as quickly and cheaply as possible movie. The script, effects and acting are all as you'd expect.
One thing I think I noticed, at one point they seem to have swapped guns, like they threw them in a pile at the end of filming Friday and just picked up the first to hand on Monday morning.