Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

This movie is completely rubbish. I just created an IMDb account to write this comment and rate this movie. The plot is incredibly bad as the seal team just like the avengers and the character just like an superior agent. Every impossible thing happens in this movie. the movie must be spent a lot of money to made as I can see from those explosion scenes, but the plot really makes the movie sucks. Moreover, in the last 20mins, which is Case running in the town and chasing by hundreds of people, and there is a f__king gun shop to let him replenish the arms, who writes this stupid script? omg I just wasted more than 2 hrs of my life on this movie and this comment.

I can watch rubbish and still enjoy it. I lasted 40 minutes before turning off. I cannot find anything right about the film. The script is clichéd and looks and totally lacks a proper storyline. It looks cheap and unrealistic. None of the SEALS would last 10 minutes in a war zone. What a shame as the first film was brilliant. This is a total insult to the franchise. There are no spoilers in this review as I am sure everyone would struggle to watch such dross. There is better action in a power rangers episode so don't waste your time. I would suggest watching Platoon, Full Metal Jacket or any other war film. This film makes Battleship look good.

The movie is about a group of Navy Seals that have to rescue a white lady somewhere in Africa who has information about Al Queda and uranium mines. This is followed by gunfights and explosions and a pretty predictable set of twists in the story line. The cover picture shows Tom Sizemore, a decent actor known for playing gruff military types in Saving Private Ryan and BlackHawk Down as well as a handful of other A list high budget films. He's never the lead actor but usually the right hand man or best friend of the lead. The cover art has him in military gear, rifle at the ready and looking like most of the characters he plays. His name has first billing in the details for the film. But he's not the main guy. He's the one sort of well known actor that you shell out some extra money to get in your film so that you can have one recognizable face on the cover of your DVD so some poor fellow like myself gets suckered in and says, "I know him from Saving Private Ryan and BlackHawk Down, I'll give this film a chance". For the record this is not the first second or even third time I've been drawn into a movie in this way, Val Kilmer owes me dearly for time spent watching Dead Man's Bounty. Don't touch that movie unless you absolutely have nothing better to do and are looking to punish yourself in the worst ways. Back to Seal Team 8. Tom is not the lead, he is the old commander that looks at large TV screens of satellite footage in a hanger someplace and says things like, "we don't leave our men out to dry" or "I don't care about rules/ orders those are my boys out there", and in that capacity he does alright. The movie itself is as generic as they come. This is the movie that was made after someone watched Tears of the Sun, Blood Diamond and Black Hawk Down back to back and thought they could take a stab at a movie about American Special Forces in Africa. Throughout the film my subconscious was logging which scenes were copied or very slightly changed from the other films listed above, and that works out to just about half the film. The dialogue is pretty weak and consists of all the usual military terms that you hear in war movies like " cover me" and "tangos at 3 O'Clock" but seemingly thrown out at random with no reaction from the Seal team mates being communicated with. The special forces guys also communicate stealthily using hand signals and again things aren't quite right. The only gesture used in the film is a closed fist pointed in various directions, and seems to mean take cover, flank them, suppressing fire, follow me and just about every other thing under the sun. On top of this, that stealthy closed fist of communication is often returned with a quiet shattering half shout that lets me, the perplexed viewer know just what exactly that last fist was telling these fellows to do. The Seal team takes time to stand in the open and huddle backs to the enemy while under fire, to talk, or mourn Bubba's untimely passing. They kneel and impart words of comfort and conduct themselves in just about every way that may get you shot if people are shooting at you. Slow motion is used in this more than the Matrix or any John Woo film but not to highlight anything cool or dramatic. It's just used. If a guy stands or ducks or steps slow motion is thrown in. Machine gun firing? Slow motion of spent casings is a must. It feels as though there was an electrical issue with the camera and the slow mo feature just randomly flicked on and off throughout. All of this is not the worst part of the film. I can be, and often am, completely happy to watch movies that leave my brothers in awe of my ability to check my brain at the door. The worst part of this film is that it takes itself seriously. It wants to be taken on the same level as Saving Private Ryan. But it also really wants to be a cool action movie and just fails so completely at both. Now having completely badmouthed this film I have to give it some quick pieces of praise. One, the aerial shots of landscapes are quite good. Two, they did not use any of that shaky camera nonsense you can clearly understand what you're watching even if that something is a mess, three, of all the things they got wrong with this film at least most of the actors did maintain proper trigger discipline. As the owner of firearms that is something I can't help but see in every film I watch and I was surprised to see this mess of a movie get that right when most movies of any budget get it wrong. Finally if you have friends over and want a movie to laugh at, mock, or talk over and aren't fussy, this may actually be a fun one to catch

As the movie starts, General Tonga speaks in Shona, one of the main native languages in Zimbabwe, yet the movie is set in Congo. Really!!!??? In Shona, to "Tonga" means to "rule". He continues speaking in very good Shona for the rest of his life in the movie.As the movie progresses, it is evident that the sub-Saharan vegetation is from, well, a sub-Saharan country. This is made clear at 1:21:45 where there is van with a KwaZulu Natal number plate for South Africa.My advice to the director is: If you are going to lie in a movie, make a good job of it. At the very least, do it well!I will not comment on the acting. I expected better from 20th Century Fox.Watch at your own risk.