A bad movie

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Peter Hyams, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, unfortunately, it turned out to be so much weaker than I expected and it was probably the weakest movie I have seen so far from this director (unsurprisingly, he hasn't directed anything else since then). I mean, of course, with such a direct-to-DVD release starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, I knew pretty much right from the start that it would be some B action flick. In fact, Van Damme was actually not bad, it was actually fun to see him playing some French Canadian gangster and he obviously had some fun with this part. Unfortunately, he was pretty much the only thing that did work though. Indeed, if Tom Everett Scott was fine playing a mild-mannered forest ranger, I was however not convincing at all as a seasoned ex-Navy SEAL soldier. To make things worse, the story was just terribly generic and tedious. On top of that, even if it was a rather short movie, nothing at all happened through some very long stretches of time making the damned thing even more boring than it already was. Anyway, to conclude, I usually try to avoid such lame action flicks starring Van Damme and I will probably keep to do so following this lame attempt. 

4/10