I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Simply A Masterpiece

Good movie but grossly overrated

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

This movie was totally awesome. What is more awesome is that Hugh Lambe is a college professor in real life. This guy is my professor and he never told us he was an actor, he teaches business, he has a few degrees. When I looked him up and saw this it blew my mind! I watched the movie and needless to say it was blew my mind seeing my teacher as "the hunter" in this movie. The movie is like a twist on an evil Rambo that lives in the woods. The movie has great special effects and great directing. Its full of twists and turns, jam packed with action and gore. I can't wait to see the sequel when it comes out with Hugh Lambe starring in it. We need more movies with Hugh Lambe in it.

A cheap, totally predictable copy of predator. There was not one surprise in the entire movie. Don't waste your time.The character development is virtually non-existent. The fight scenes are so fake it is amazing that an old running from many machines guns unloading clips doesn't get at the least, winged. Even the "crew" finding a liquor bottle from the 1970s and drinking it is, well, lame.I wish I could get my time back from watching the movie. I kept waiting for it to get better. Don't waste your time.The old man must have been not just a soldier, but an Olympian runner as he manages to beat men half his age, through tunnels while the youngster are above ground hauling butt.Watch the Expendables for the umpteenth time again.

I'm going to keep this very simple. Imagine you have never had a creative idea in your life, so you watch Predator and decide it's so awesome you're going to remake it, except you don't have a monster, a jungle, special effects, actors, soldiers or talent. This is what Battleground is, a poorly hacked together rip off of Predator (with a bit of Hobo with a Shotgun). Scene for scene, line for line, Battleground tries to wear Predator's shoes and what is baffling to me is how so many people involved in the making of this film could have gone along with it. Was this really how the director wanted it? And they actually spent money to make this? Congratualtions, you've made it that much harder for real film makers to get funding.

This is a bizarre Canadian production that openly steals not just style, characters and scenes but even entire lines from the Michael Mann movie, Heat.The plagiarism is so blatant that I would encourage Mann to sue the pants off Neil Mackay and his writer, wait for it, Sean McAulay. Yep, that's right Neil/McAuley (the very name of the lead protagonist/antagonist in Heat).After the weak set up introducing the Vietnam vet, we are treated to a somewhat exciting presentation of the bank robbers fleeing the scene of their crime in... an ambulance. One of their number is shot. The group dump the ambulance for a getaway car (Mackay - assuming that's his real name - falls short of having them plant an explosive on the ambulance and set it on fire). It's like someone took the script of Heat, chopped it up and replaced bits and pieces to make something new but extremely familiar.Several shot compositions are not just reminiscent of Heat but are IDENTICAL, from the way the lead role speaks to the way he holds the handset at the public phone booth. "What happened out there?" - "don't ask," I mutter to myself, "you don't wanna know" the guy on screen says. WTF?! If you know Heat (which is a superior production to this pile of tripe in virtually every possible sense) you'll be struck dumb by what is basically an initial copy, stealing bits and pieces of that film before embarking on a pointless and ill-focused killer-in-the-woods set up. Ridiculous.