Second-rate special FX, run-of-the-mill soundtrack, pedestrian acting, predictable plot all the way from the grandfather to the daughter and to the main characters, no real talent to be seen anywhere. One for the graveyards of VHS if this was released in the 1990's, but now I guess this is one for the graveyards of streaming. You can spot it on the first 10 minutes.
This is a dumb script, riddled with impossible premisses and utterly stupid turns.
I actually tried to watch this 2 times. The 1st try, I was 10 minutes into the film and.... "nah,,, too stupid" The second try I was like "OK, let's see what they come up with..." - and what they come up with is... the FULL RANGE of US-INVASION-WAR-MOVIE clichés, down from the goodie-two-shoes SEAL officer who wants to "save" his local Serbian girlfriend without a 2nd thought to her ties to her home country, all the way to the disparaging of UK's SAS (whose members can actually kick any navy SEAL's ass blindfolded and with 1 arm tied behind their backs), and to the stupidity of EVERY SINGLE MILITARY ENCOUNTER.
Just remember that these guys produced "Lucy", that extreme flight of fancy that has ZERO resemblance to any menial fact. I bet the only thing that is not completely violated in "Lucy" is the law of gravity.
Anyway, "Renegades" is just another idiotic venture into the wild realm of absolute craziness and complete disregard for reality that you can frequently find in movies produced by these guys, and that will only be entertaining to 7-8 year old boys before they start to Google keywords like "Unabomber", "Nazi gold" and "hot serbian girls" (little will they know that the hot girl in the movie is actually Dutch".
Bottom line: complete time-waster filled with outlandish fight scenes where everybody loses except americans, and with a lot of explosions (much of those unnecessary) and illogical military banter.
This is a dumb script, riddled with impossible premisses and utterly stupid turns.
I actually tried to watch this 2 times. The 1st try, I was 10 minutes into the film and.... "nah,,, too stupid" The second try I was like "OK, let's see what they come up with..." - and what they come up with is... the FULL RANGE of US-INVASION-WAR-MOVIE clichés, down from the goodie-two-shoes SEAL officer who wants to "save" his local Serbian girlfriend without a 2nd thought to her ties to her home country, all the way to the disparaging of UK's SAS (whose members can actually kick any navy SEAL's ass blindfolded and with 1 arm tied behind their backs), and to the stupidity of EVERY SINGLE MILITARY ENCOUNTER.
Just remember that these guys produced "Lucy", that extreme flight of fancy that has ZERO resemblance to any menial fact. I bet the only thing that is not completely violated in "Lucy" is the law of gravity.
Anyway, "Renegades" is just another idiotic venture into the wild realm of absolute craziness and complete disregard for reality that you can frequently find in movies produced by these guys, and that will only be entertaining to 7-8 year old boys before they start to Google keywords like "Unabomber", "Nazi gold" and "hot serbian girls" (little will they know that the hot girl in the movie is actually Dutch".
Bottom line: complete time-waster filled with outlandish fight scenes where everybody loses except americans, and with a lot of explosions (much of those unnecessary) and illogical military banter.
