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As a retired army officer I can tell you that there are those forces in most major governments, to include the United States, who are not specifically military that are considered the "dirty tricks" teams. The movie "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" is a perfect example of this. This is quite similar to the older series Mission Impossible that was on tv, not the Tom Cruise movies. The bottom line is we have rules on how combat is conducted, it's called the Rules of Land Warfare. The dirty tricks teams do not follow those guidelines. They work well behind the scenes, frequently not in a uniform or their countries uniforms, and their job is to pull that one brick out of the dam which over time will cause the dams collapse, which may unfortunately mean the deaths of innocent people. Their philosophy is the ends justify means. As part of the Cardassian intelligence community Garack is one of such people, a professional liar, spy and saboteur. Ultimately, in real life if the dirty tricks teams are captured there will be no attempt to get them released from imprisonment, torture or execution. They technically do not exist. It's simply a known consequence that they have to accept. This particular episode highlights how that whole thing works. Captain Sisko, worked behind the scenes with a Romulan officer in order to get a deal worked out to sway the Romulan policies to come on the side of the Federation and it's allies. To do this this a faked video was made by Mr. Garack in order to convince them. Garack's training in dirty tricks new exactly how ineffective that this video would be under professional scrutiny and knowing this he rigged the game to ensure the Romulan's thought the Dominion caused the death of this officer. This is something that Sisko did not need to know at the time. He is a very principled star Fleet officer who follows the rules, and the dirty tricks tactics is something that he is either too principled to consider or thought he was above that type of thing. The realization that his involvement in the deal which led to the death of a possible "innocent" ally and a forger may have saved the Federation from Dominion domination. He just has to reconcile with the fact that a principled individual from the Romulan side had been killed because of him. It's something that he now has to live with, knowing that he is responsible although not directly, with the death of this principled Romulan officer. It's a hard Truth for him to learn but Garack explained it perfectly. He wanted a war between the Romulans and the Dominions and he got it, and all it took was the death of one Romulan officer and your Starfleet principles. Again, you don't want to know how the sausages made. Just sit down and enjoy it.

Just parroting what reviewer Rodney H stated, "Oh my God this was awful!" I agree wholeheartedly, even though I missed the first 10 to 15 minutes of the movie I feel I was lucky. I would have gouged my eyes out but I think that that would have hurt a lot more than staying to the end of this crap. There are a couple of spoilers here, first off he was right. The plot line was all over the place, there were action scenes that made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Whomever made this movie should be ashamed, truly ashamed. The only pluses other than missing the first 15 minutes was the beautiful Ellie Patrikios, who I must say was a joy to view. My greatest hope is that the memory of this movie does not follow her career in a detrimental way. This movie should be forgotten in all its ungloriness. If somebody gives this thing over a two rating, they were paid! The only other plus was action scenes were filmed pretty well, however the plot line is if you fire 50,000 rounds of ammunition point blank at a alien mutant and it doesn't go down, firing 50,001 rounds aren't going to do the trick either. Just seems the soldiers were sacrificing their lives for absolutely no reason other than to make noises and to die. The moral of that tactic is if bullets aren't going to kill the monster, find something else. A rat trap, a grenade, a lawn dart, a toaster, a copy of this movie on DVD perhaps would be a fatal interaction. But emptying bullet after bullet after bullet did absolutely no good so why are they constantly so close that this thing could kill them. Made no sense. The whole time fragment with the guy making initials on walls made no sense. This whole movie made no sense. If I could unsee something this would be it except of course for the one hot actress, my hope Is that she will have a fruitful and long-lasting career. This movie however isn't going to help. This was a true horror, not the genre, the review for this movie. True horror. Somebody should go to jail!

I really couldn't finish this movie, as a retired army pilot the plot holes are the size of Jupiter. One, for marines they're flying the wrong helicopter. Marine aircraft have two engines, not one, twin exhausts and pointed noses. They're very distictive. Those are army UH-1H's. Two, the sighting system used to take out a helicopter isn't used with an RPG. It's got plain iron sights. Three, she's got no survival vest, you know, the thing that holds not only a weapon but a survival radio that would allow speaking to other aircraft in the air. Four, those are not stinger missiles, again it's RPG's (Rocket Propelled Grenades). Also, how would they have known if they were stinger missiles unless they're witnesses seeing them actually being fired. Five, operations like this using helos would have cobras, apaches or A-10 warthogs in immediate support. Even the Phillipine army uses AH-6 defenders which re smaller and faster than hueys and perfect for special team insertions. Six, war zones won't have helicopters flying at night with their lights on. Seven, when giving locations for artillery, it's going to be 2 letters and 8 numbers for a grid zone location, they don't use degrees. Eight, you wouldn't say "flight control or rescue one" on the radio, she would have given a callsign (example Yankee 50, Alpha 21). Nine, sporadic bullet hits does't constitute AA (anti-aircraft) fire, she would have called it ground fire. Ten, all the rifles fell out of the aircraft during the crash?? Not possible, as well as one soldier on the ground has his rifle across his chest That bird would be brimming with weapons to include two M-60 machine guns. Eleven, a village of that size would be known whether it harbored "rebel" soldiers and would have been marked as a hostile stronghold. Twelve, have these people ever heard of artillery support, because the rebels seem to use it on occasion. At this point I turned it off. I can't comment too much on the acting as it seems pretty wooden from Randle's performance but this is an extremely bad movie on military tactics alone.

I've not spent much time in Florida myself, but if there's an attempted kidnapping, murder and a gunfight and fire in the doctors office as well as the street outside, I would think it would be appropriate to take the kid to a police station instead of home and maybe call the police and parents as well to fill them in. It's quite a plot hole that can never be filled. That single act would have negated everything else that follows in the movie. The entire dastardly plot would have been foiled and the bad guys would probably have been discovered from their cohorts laying dead in the doctors office. Other than that it was what comes to be expect from a Jason Statham movie.

I spent twenty years in the army as an infantryman and combat helicopter pilot. This movie does hit very well on the ethical dilemmas that can be found on the battlefield and in this case above it. These people are like modern day snipers who looks through a high powered scope and can see clearly the faces and activities of those they're about to pull the trigger on.

The flaws, it does take some time to develop the story-line, but the payoff was worth it. The box cover has nothing at all to do with the movie.

The pluses, this movie is a great example of how humanity may step in and make the job of "make contact and destroy" a much more difficult thing to do for some to do than others. No one expects these people to behave like the robots they're controlling, and in reality in the position of the drone operators, they are versed heavily in rules of engagement. As a team member operating a predator or reaper this possibility would have been covered before she was put in that command unit. There are times when they have to wait for the target to be in a position which would afford the ability to eliminate collateral damage. The principle of ground warfare today is that we do everything possible to limit civilian casualties, but as it's a war zone, there is absolutely no way to eliminate it completely. Some take solace in the fact that the technology they've demonstrated in the movie has caused much fewer civilian casualties than any other conflict in history along with keeping friendly casualties to a minimum. In reality, should this degree of an officers conscious present itself during a drone mission, one or both operators would have been relieved immediately. For the sake of plot, the fact that the woman was a generals daughter I'm assuming that's why it didn't happen immediately to allow her the opportunity to follow orders and not be disgraced as these missions are highly classified and likely would not have been exposed to the scrutiny of her peers in the air force or the public.

I felt that the writing was pretty good except for the turn of events from her partners guilt at the end. Other than that my opinion was that it was a very good movie showing an officer who's moral difficulties in performing the job should have kept her out of that position in the first place. The acting was good in the fact that the conversations between Bowles and Lawson was exactly what I've experienced after 20 years in combat arms, especially the cavalier attitude of the airman. There are two facts in wars, (1) innocent people do die and (2) you can't stop innocent people from dying. His acceptance in that allowed him to do the job without the emotional toll the job was taking would not affect his ability to do his duty. He obviously had to deal with the death of innocent people his previous strike had caused but tried to play it off as sh*t happens or "the greater good".

These missions are highly complicated matters which requires a great deal of patience as well as keeping an accurate account of the smallest of information observed to be reported and processed in the higher echelons of the organization which was demonstrated quite well. They did a really good job.

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I'm very surprised that there were so many positive comments about this fine feature film. I'd hate to rain on this parade, but as "drbecker's" comments on April 14, 2011 mentioned, there were a few things that don't really work in this wonderful film. Not even referring to the acting, more the script. The writers really had no idea what they were talking about. The vast majority of the mistakes I saw should not have been allowed to stay in the script. Event Horizon came out years later with the same basic premise, but they did a much better job with the science woven into the plot. This one was a mess. Just a few things I had a problem with…

• Minor, but I gotta wonder, the production studio could afford decent replicas of EVA spacesuits which have area lights on the helmets which are never used. They carry hand-held flashlights instead when entering the shuttle. • 2nd in command doesn't tell anyone anything about what he's found out about the Bermuda Triangle (B.T.), maybe important to let the gang in on why they're all screwed. And if they don't believe him he can remind them that they just docked with a 30+ year old spacecraft with no crew or fuel onboard that was never designed to go to the moon. Any far-fetched claims would be looking pretty good by then. Also, you see a crewmember being attacked and you've been locked in the computer room, hey, how about calling somebody else to help her? • It's idiotic to lock-out the rest of the crew from the computer just because you're the ships I.T. specialist. If you die they're screwed. Also, an incredible amount of space wasted by installing a sexy manikin/A.I., unless of course it's used for sex then it's justified. • A demon is in control the ship, shutting down needed systems, locking doors and isolating crewmen and women at the worst possible times. Collecting parts from the derelict would also be expected to fail. Why not blow yourself up now and get it over with. No sense in letting El Diablo mess with your head if you blow your head off. That'll teach him. • Why are they carrying automatic weapons on a spacecraft??? You damage the hull, blow out a window or destroy equipment then you're pretty damn well screwed. • What's the deal with the abdominal slicing and dicing? • Passage behind the moon would only take a matter of 20-40 minutes depending on velocity unless you're hovering in the shadow or falling to the moon's surface. If you're falling it's not going to take 24 hours to hit the dirt, or bite the dust so to speak. And if your velocity was not enough to allow one to get caught in the moons gravity it'll just drift past the moon. • Alignment with the Bermuda triangle to that area of the moon would be constantly changing as the earth spins and the moon orbits the planet. An alignment would only be effective for a few minutes in a day. Additionally, the area they refer to as "the dark side of the moon" is always faced away from the earth so alignment with the B.T. is impossible. • The typical design of the space shuttles contains a command section and a cargo bay. There are not several floors, corridors, compartments, crawl space vents or sunken floor saunas built into it. The cargo compartment is just a big open space. • Why put an orbital missile platform anywhere near the moon. Its 258,000 miles away. Missiles fired from the weapons platform would have to compensate for the moons gravitational field as well as go around the moon; also it's generally more than a day's travel from a high-speed platform compared to an earth orbital platform which can destroy targets in 30 minutes or less or your money back. • Detonating a nuclear weapon within close proximity to your spacecraft is really bad ideas as if it's a space-based missile system the warheads will likely have an incredibly high yield. In other words, there isn't enough sun block in Florida to help you • 1990's era shuttle craft does not have artificial gravity, umbilical lines or a docking tunnel. They don't have traditional fuel tanks, they have maneuvering thrusters only. • You cannot survive for more than a few seconds in zero atmosphere. • Electronics today change from month to month, The relays they spent so much time trying to find will not work in a craft made 30 years later.

It could have been better had they even began to understand a principal spacecraft they wrote into the script. This one doesn't support the story line. They could have poised it further into the future, using a craft made 50 years into the future. That along with the writing plot holes, primarily when facts are discovered and you don't inform the rest of the crew. If it slipped his mind this story line is crap.

Cons: They followed "The Formula" of zombie movies. Its a by-the-numbers zombie flick, that's about the only con I had with the movie. Yup, we've seen it all before.

Pros: The make up effects were great, high marks for slime. Very high on the "gore count". Although not intentionally a comedy there was some pretty humorous reactions.

As the plot line goes, all the complications in the lives of people being chased by killer zombies were made in this movie like wasting bullets with torso shots, denial by the authority figure even when there are multiple incidents of something going really wrong, wrecking the only transportation you have, ignoring the screams of comrades with the "Did you hear something?" line and then not investigating as your buddies are transformed into an all you can eat buffet. Nothing was missed.

Loved the reaction of Larry, the ex-con/driver who had the best line in the movie "We stand a better chance if we just roll outta here and call in an airstrike". Better than classic!

The only thing that really didn't make sense from the writer/editors is if access was made with a gated road, why did the students go to the island (actually a peninsula in this case) on a small rubber zodiac and have to walk some 10 minutes to the camp. It had nothing to do with the plot line of the movie. Wouldn't it been easier to just drive in as everyone else did? Also, you could have saved the cost of the zodiac.

In any case, if you're a fan of zombie movies you pretty much know what's going to happen, this one is no different, but the running, the screaming, the dying were all quite entertaining. Its worth a look.

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Put down the remote, back away slowly and nobody gets hurt!!! OH-MY-GOD!!! I Personally love Treat Williams movies, but after seeing Venomous, it's quite clear that his agent needs to be fired. The acting from just about all is bad..., really bad. The script is hideous, or dare I say "Venomous". Still, I was transfixed with this train wreck of a movie and had to see just really how bad it could get. It's quite fair to say that I wasn't disappointed. The Horror...

Although I wasn't expecting Othello, I also didn't expect a script written by Butters from South Park. This was award winningly awful. Just some of the problems I have of the script and there are quite a few, but I limit my disdain for these 6: (1) Gas masks protect you from gas, not a living biological contagion. (2) If you have military soldiers standing guard outside a door to say, a hospital and someone fires a handgun within that hospital, they will react, very quickly and very violently and not standing like human doorstops with live weapons. (3) In the moron family's attempt to run the roadblock they almost collide with oncoming traffic on the way out, yet a few hundred yards down the road they find the road is a complete dead end. A few questions there is where did the oncoming traffic come from on a dead end road and if you're a resident in that area and you're making an escape from the military quarantine, what kind of idiots plan their escape down a dead end road? (4) Another reviewer mentioned the hundreds of snakes simply materializing behind Treat on a floor that was clear seconds before, but Kudos for Mr. Williams actually handling what appears to be a live snake, although it could have been chilled before hand to slow it's defensive reactions to being picked up in the tunnel, but in that scene he enters what looks to be an old abandoned mine in a dirt clearing, the entrance of it made with old wood pylons, yet seconds later he's in a well maintained concrete tunnel which includes electric lighting and modern pipes running along the wall as if he's in a modern building. (5) The initial research center where the snakes were housed is blown up, yet the snakes 10 years later appear beneath a decades old garage in a completely different town. Doesn't it seem strange they'd crawl who knows how many miles beneath the surface to this remote town and had never come up once where the original high-security holding facility was? and "The Biggie" (6), I was expecting the snakes to show up on the helicopter in the end to dispatch the Bad Guy, but when filmed during take off the floor was absolutely clean. No place for a reptile to hide and all of a sudden, they're wrapped around the guys feet. Additionally the helicopter seems to transform from a small 5 seat A Star with landing skids to what appears to be a much larger HH-3 Pelican with wheels instead of skids during the explosion and crash. Not even did they spring for file footage of a similar type aircraft crash. This is like a volkswagen beetle turning into a 8 passenger van.

Jeeze, come on!! This was obviously a very poor rip off of Outbreak's script. At least Outbreak had a modicum of science behind they're script. This was just awful. My sincere condolences to Mr. Treat Williams. He, as well as the viewing public deserve better.