Director John Hyams (son of Peter) daringly switches-up the concept of the
first (and awful) film about slain U.S. soldiers genetically reengineered as
unstoppable warriors, and plops them right in the U.S. of A., playing on Tea
Party paranoia, government black ops, and “Apocalypse Now” showdowns
with Van Damme as Kurtz, ghoulish in heavy makeup.
The plot follows
a man (Scott Adkins) who awakens from a coma nine months after watching his
family slain by mysterious intruders. Grieved and lost, he obsesses over the
attackers. He’s also hunted by seemingly unkillable men who unexplainably like his own
body can grow back appendages after they are chopped off.
The less you know the better, because it’s a kick of a nightmarish journey with
hidden meanings about NRA kill-or-be-killed addictions so off kilter from this typical
genre, I wanted more. The junk dialogue and headache-inducing strobe-light effects are
easily forgiven. B+
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