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“Land of Bad offers an engaging yet flawed rescue operation that should please most viewers seeking adrenaline-driven entertainment. With excellent performances across the board, William Eubank employs fast pacing, high-intensity shootout sequences with a few interesting stylistic choices, and basic yet riveting storytelling.

Character development and thematic depth remain surface-level, and the third act’s plot conveniences contrast with the realism of previous segments, but the film ultimately accomplishes what it promised, providing enough moments of tension empowered by a potent score to still reach the shore.”

Rating: B-

Land of Bland as I call it, is yet another uninspiring, production line, pro US military, action flick.

Coming kitted out with the usual pro US exceptionalism and bad guys who have a valid point about imperialism but are still “bad” anyway, this film offers nothing even remotely original or in this reviewers opinion, terribly likeable.

The characters are your usual array of entitled, obnoxious, US military types, who go on a flawed escapade in someone else’s country to retrieve a CIA asset. Things turn sour and well the rest is your by the book, bravado, darning do, bravery, codswallop.

Fight scenes are frenetic, well paced and impressive. Lots of pyrotechnics and slow motion bullet and shell casing shots.Certainly from an exposition point of view, this film is not dull.

Acting is unremarkable but its the story that really leaves a lot to be desired. Putting aside its predictable bias, this tale is cliched, pedestrian and utterly predictable. Its essentially, every stale, second rate, US military action flick, you have ever seen with Australians and New Zealanders, in the lead.

In summary, a film loaded down with tired pro US sentiment that’s thoroughly unoriginal. Really only watchable in terms of its admittedly fast paced and elaborate, exposition.

Modern look at classic action flicks
This movie is a kind of a blast from the past, when action movies like “Commando” or “Missing in Action” ruled the VHS rental stores. It has absolutely everything that fans of adult cinema appreciate and value – shootouts, swear words in the dialogues, simple motivations and quite good execution.

Liam Hemsworth may not be the king of acting, but he delivers a sufficiently interesting role to follow his fate with excitement on face. For me, it was a pleasant screening, although it lacks some clear and positive argument. It is a solid action movie in a modern edition, but without unnecessary corporate influences. It is worth watching, because such productions are basically not produced today.

It is actually quite ok
Not as bad as I feared. There is absolutely no nitty-gritty feel to it. Nothing dark or foreboding. Nothing really suspenseful. No, it floats gently on the surface, fairly nice, controlled and polished. But on the other hand it is mostly fairly realistic and surprisingly gory. The enemies cannot aim if their lives depended on it (which it actually does, making it even more surprising that they cannot aim) and hand grenades has huge explosions, tearing down walls and stuff. But overall fairly realistic, still.

So yeah, I would give it a 6.5. Absolutely not a 7 and since 6.5 does not exist I am forced to give it a 6.

Russel Crowe did a pretty good job. There were a bunch of explosions n stuff. It was alright I guess.

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/land-of-bad-review-an-engaging-yet-flawed/

“Land of Bad offers an engaging yet flawed rescue operation that should please most viewers seeking adrenaline-driven entertainment. With excellent performances across the board, William Eubank employs fast pacing, high-intensity shootout sequences with a few interesting stylistic choices, and basic yet riveting storytelling.

Character development and thematic depth remain surface-level, and the third act’s plot conveniences contrast with the realism of previous segments, but the film ultimately accomplishes what it promised, providing enough moments of tension empowered by a potent score to still reach the shore.”

Rating: B-

Modern look at classic action flicks
This movie is a kind of a blast from the past, when action movies like “Commando” or “Missing in Action” ruled the VHS rental stores. It has absolutely everything that fans of adult cinema appreciate and value – shootouts, swear words in the dialogues, simple motivations and quite good execution.

Liam Hemsworth may not be the king of acting, but he delivers a sufficiently interesting role to follow his fate with excitement on face. For me, it was a pleasant screening, although it lacks some clear and positive argument. It is a solid action movie in a modern edition, but without unnecessary corporate influences. It is worth watching, because such productions are basically not produced today.

Not bad but poorly done military representation
The movie itself isn’t bad, but seeing all of the egregious mistakes made with military uniforms, rank, incorrect wings on the pilots, etc just made it hard to watch. While I appreciate artistic license, if you’re going to include the military in a movie make sure you do the research and portray them correctly. We watch movies too and seeing ourselves misrepresented is annoying. I mean you have army rank on an Air Force enlisted person who is not wearing the right uniform to be a sensor operator in the first place. I understand it’s not all on the director and producer as they hired a military liaison, but they should still do their research and verify that what they’re putting out there is correct. It’s not hard to just google Air Force uniforms and see what they should look like.

That’s not even the worst of it. What in the actual heck is Russell Crowe wearing?? You just took a proud group of military aviators and made them look like a joke with that half assed flight suit/jacket nonsense. We take our jobs seriously and when seeing them portrayed so badly in a film it’s like a slap in the face. Do better.