How sad is this?

A Masterpiece!

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Dean Cain stars as an ATF agent who teams up with a formerly paroled racist and ex-militia mad man Frederic Forrest (How does one go from Apoclypse Now to this?) who take down a plan to assassinate the president (or some high profile official) with a missile (not sure if it's nuclear because these generic flicks run together for me) and Jennifer Beals as Dean Cain's back up leads an all out assault against the leader of the militia (Another talented actor, Stacy Keach!) Actually I was puzzled as to whether these militia men were white supremacists or if they were just playing army, one thing is for sure the movie is completely hopeless. How bad is Militia? So bad it rips off stock footage from Terminator 2 (!), American Ninja 2 (!!) and Delta Force 2 (!!!) and somehow manages to be a disgrace to all three films. Militia is along the lines of borrowed action and the lengths they go to disguise the stock footage as their own action is truly hysterical. Indeed had they put as much attention in concealing their stock footage, into making a good movie, this movie still would've sucked. All in all a terrible movie.* Out of 4-(Bad)

Yes, I am a Dean Cain fan. However, unlike the others that posted before me, I HATED, despised, and won't recommend this movie. Heck, I wouldn't recommend this to someone I hated! I must confess Dean's hair gel was the major player in this movie. Never mind, the ridiculous Rush Limbaugh-like DJ played by Stacey Keach. I respected Mr. Keach more when he co-starred in "Up in Smoke" with Cheech & Chong. Office Stedanko (sp?) was a hell of a lot more believable than Stacey's Militia character.Oh yes, let's not forget Dean and his glorious Hair Gel, for a minute I was going to burn my "Dean Iz Hot" card. He wore the same hairstyle throughout the whole picture. Again, he sure looked purty.

I'm stunned by how many commentators here think this film features footage either mimicking scenes from bigger budget films or that the filmmakers stole these scenes and put them in their films. The studios routinely offer footage from their movies as potential stock footage for others to use. The early episodes of the JAG TV series were filled with footage from the Jack Ryan/Tom Clancy movies. It works better if the footage is from big budget flops or if only brief sequences are used rather than entire scenes as is the case in MILITIA and it helps if some attempt is made to hide anything obvious that might tip off a viewer as to the source of the footage (the Cyberdine sign being an example here)but there's nothing new about using stock footage to make your movie look bigger than it is. It's been done since the early days of film. If you want a real laugh check out RAPTOR from the same director which uses tons of footage from the 3 CARNOSAUR movies. At one point some soldiers walking (supposedly) through a warehouse pass life preservers on the wall. The reason being that this is footage from CARNOSAUR 3 which took place on a ship.

i love really 'good' bad movies (silverado, wayne's world 2, and terror in tiny town, amongst them), and this one isn't bad enough to be nominated. it is not a worthless effort, it's just not a good one, in any way that i noticed.i apologize. i said that it isn't awful. but it is.no reason to watch, 10. chance of hidden meaning to elevate, 0.it's a great movie to impress your first date with your knowledge of basic good and bad, 10 (it's so obvious in this flic, lady, or dude)please use this flic to impress somebody else, because it will not have any good lasting effect on you. thank you.