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Rating: 6 stars

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navy seals missile island rescue mission scientist kidnapping female martial artist murder martial arts swordfight

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U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force (2001)

Directed by Isaac Florentine

Action | Thriller

Overview

At a secret Russian nuclear missile base, an ex-U.S. SEAL member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States, and the only way to stop him is with the best of the best. Because of a natural gas refinery leak, the newly formed team must infiltrate without conventional weapons and use a mixture of martial arts skills, swords, crossbows and unconventional arms in their top secret attack.

Rated R | Length 95 minutes

Actors

Michael Worth | Karen Kim | Damian Chapa | Marshall R. Teague | Kate Connor | Sophia Crawford | Hakim Alston | Dan Southworth | George Cheung | Velizar Binev | Franklin A. Vallette | Andy Cheng | Burnell Tucker

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Basically the no-name Expendables. My friend Marty always mentions this title whenever there’s talk of how current action films aren’t any good yet he argues this one is better than 90+ percent of them. Welp… he’s wrong. My guess is that he just prefers the PM Entertainment style of filmmaking and action over John Wick / MCU & others. Which is fine.

I really like Florentine but this isn’t his best or close to it. Credit him with taking a ridiculous premise and keeping it interesting. Also the hand to hand fighting is very good. Props to the actors that did a lot of the work to be convincing. I just wish the same attention was given to other details like the lady scientist that’s kidnapped and never changes her attire so she’s wearing heels the entire time and her nails are perfectly manicured. Not realistic but a simple fix could’ve made it believable. I dunno why I notice little shit like this but I do and it bugs me bc it’s an easy thing to correct.

This would be a good B-Fest movie bc it’s so stupid yet enjoyable. Didn’t know when I got this dvd that it was full screen but now I’m wondering if a widescreen version exists if this was a DTV film. Also there’s zero extras on the DVD. Just “play movie” and done. Really one of these boutique labels should do a Florentine box set of his early films 90s-00s.

**Update**
I returned to the DVD to 2nd & Charles bc they 1) overcharged me 2) the DVD sucks
If I can find it again for cheap I will pick it up but it’s not one I’d revisit much if at all so don’t really care whether I own this or not. Ofc if it gets a nice Blu-ray treatment I would 100 percent buy it.

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