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This is a foreign film about the US navy, and they guess poorly at how it works. from the unrealistic seal team who the creators believe music and speed make it more tense and believable, even with botched Halo jumps and allowing their positions to be found through unsecured radio broadcasts (somehow using a NSA satellite). to the submarines XO who manages to question every order his captain gives, every one...for example, informing his commander how he is illegally rescuing Russian sailors trapped on a sunken submarine in non time of war or how the foolish captain will be court marshaled for following orders from the joint chiefs to go into Russian waters with a Russian captain to pilot them to pick up the seal team. shouting Court marshal all the way...in reality he would have been removed from the bridge shortly after the captain told him "if i have to repeat all my orders we re going to die..." if it where entertaining it wouldn't be so bad but i have seen much lower budget movies do so much better than this...

As a lower level film maker myself I see many small issues that are distracting from an otherwise entertaining low budget movie. (the "after effects" gunshots/muzzle flashes/ejecting cartridges) coming from air soft style or resin prop guns. this can be distracting as its done way too much, and if they would have rented an armorer, a few real weapons and given more training to the actors on the use of them (for example you don't fire a barrett .50 from the hip while kneeling on a rooftop and actually expect to hit something) it would have helped keep the distractions down. and people watching the movie rather than questioning what they just saw.

the acting is not too...bad, a bit more emotion, a little less dumb-a$$/redneck stereo typing and some back-story would be helpful. the camera work is adequate but depending on the shooting conditions it seemed they the must have had a very limited amount of space to film the battle scenes in. with a little more thought and camera work i feel that the limited space used could be made to look like a lot more... it reminded me of shooting in someones backyard. one way or the other that's falls back on the producer for choosing the spot and the DP for not using what he had to its fullest.

as for the battle scenes, if the intent was to show overwhelming orc forces than they should have hired more extras, recycling eight people in rubber masks at a time throughout the movie just didn't work for me.

I am unsure what they spent the 1.5 mil on for the production, I have seen better production value for about a quarter mil. I could always nickel and dime it further but I really don't see a reason. Overall I liked what I saw and with so much poorly filmed/acted trash out there this was a nice change.