Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

The Worst Film Ever

the audience applauded

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

ATF agent Carter takes part in a raid on the Brotherhood of Liberty camp in the countryside but the raid quickly turns bad when a stray bullet causes a bloodbath. Two years later, Carter is selected to infiltrate another militia group led by the smooth-talking Montgomery in order to recover some missing bioweapon. He is joined by the former head of the Brotherhood of Liberty, William Fain, who has been released from prison for the mission. Along the way, the pair must learn to put aside their differences in order to complete the mission.Jim Wynorski is the one director I love to hate. He has made a large number of low-budget sci-fi, action & horror films since the late 1970s & not a single one has managed to get a decent rating on the IMDb's rating system. There is a reason for this – Wynorski is a terrible director who loves to fill his films with half-cocked conspiracies by shadowy figures, naked women & a whole heap of stolen footage from other films. Which makes him a rather dishonest hack of a director. With Militia, Wynorski (using his pseudonym of Jay Andrews) & the rather stupid writer Steve Latshaw join forces to make this effort.You get a sinking feeling while watching Militia when the initial raid takes place, which consists mainly of footage stolen from Delta Force 2 – with Black Ops helicopters pounding the target buildings. Anyone with a decent intelligence will recognise that the ATF doesn't have military attack helicopters in their arsenal. Things get worse when the two terrorists steal a vial of anthrax from a government facility & embarrass the police by shooting their cars up – another stolen scene, this time from one of my favourite films, TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY. I wasn't impressed one tiny bit by this blatant theft of footage. I hope James Cameron finds out about this & sues Wynorski to the unemployment line. The basic lack of fact-checking that mars many of Wynorski's films is also apparent when the ATF make an assault on the missile base, with ATF agents wielding Kalashnikov assault rifles – no American law enforcement unit uses Kalashnikov assault rifles in their arsenal.Having said all that, the only reason I'm not giving this piece of trash the lowest rating is because the actors are competent & make an effort to sell this piece of garbage to the viewer. Stacy Keach has done a lot of B-grade work over the years & he is good in this role as the villain. Former Superman Dean Cain has been struck badly by the Superman curse, stuck doing cheap work like this for years but also acquits himself well. Jennifer Beals also makes a favourable impression as the female ATF agent.

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.

The story was decent, but so much footage was ripped from other movies that it was kinda like watching a greatest hits movie. Going into this film, I knew it was low-budget, so the cheap SFX is understandable. Still a decent story....but there were also a lot of plot twists...maybe they should have named it Double Cross....

The opening scene told me everything I needed to know about this film. I know next to nothing about ATF procedures and militia groups, but I will guarantee you I know more about them than the makers of this movie. The ATF raid on the militia camp was carried out with such ridiculous distortions that I immediately lost the ability to get into the movie. Maybe the makers of this movie should have used me as a technical consultant, and I would have helped them make a movie that wasn't so idiotic and contrived. Why do so many Hollywood movies ignore even trying to depict a sense of reality when they try to represent the actions of police or military or even militia groups? If the militia group was so well-trained, why were they all standing out in the open, making themselves perfect targets for the ATF gunships? I'm really sure an ATF tactical commander is going to order the destruction of all the buildings after the militia members surrender!!! Jeeez what a crock!!!!! Any interest I might have had in the remainder of this movie was utterly ruined by the ludicrous depiction of the ATF raid on the militia compound. I long for directors and producers who know how to set an air of reality (or at least the illusion of what I think reality might be) for a movie to allow me to immerse myself in it. It's obviously not for a lack of money. It also seems obvious that the makers of this movie were more interested in preaching some kind from some kind of Hollywood pulpit, disregarding the intelligence of the viewers. Hell...go ahead and make a statement if you want to, but do it without insulting the customer, otherwise you won't even get the chance!