Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

hyped garbage

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This low budget movie grabs your attention as there are two bloody individuals sitting outside of a room. One has a knife in her chest. There is a commotion in the room as the woman with the knife in her chest pulls out two hand guns and appears poised to enter the room guns blazing (something I would have done before I got in her condition). After the hook scene we go into a one week earlier flashback which in turn uses more flashbacks as a subplot and to feed us information.It seems the son of a billionaire widow (Vicki Askew as Vicki Lark) has been taken captive and she employs the mercenary Sloan (Eric Berner) to rescue him. Their initial meeting was a lesson in bad acting and bad dialouge. Sloan assembles a roadhouse team of people we know by nicknames: Smoke (Darrin Dickerson who wrote, directed, and edited this film), Cutter (Jeff Hime) who provides us with some bad tanning bed humor, Brocker (Clay Brocker) apparently the writers couldn't come up with a clever nickname, and Snipe (Jaimee Gray Simon) our token eye candy. Two of these individuals we recall from the opening scene. The son is being held at D-4 which doesn't "exist" and is part of the same experimental group in our subplot.The subplot flashback involves a 6 year old boy being experimented on by horrific MST actors pretending to be doctors. The boy was in the care of his old geezer grandfather (Ted LeGarde), who at times is talking to the doctors and other times is in the woods recording himself on a rescue mission. The editing was as horrific as the script and acting almost to the point of being unintentionally comical. The movie credits read like the Dickerson family tree.The film has a nice little twist at the end, which shows some writing talent in the basic plot outline. The details in executing the plot were substandard. The script dialouge and acting needed to be more animated. If you are going to have two guys get off a helicopter and walk to swagger music, it needs to be slow motion for the full effect. Who doesn't know that?No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Blood, killing, p-word.

Wow, how some movies get a green-light and a budget is beyond me. Awful sums this one up. The story revolves around a group of special ops mercs that are hired to rescue a wealthy women's son that supposedly is being held at a shut down, secret government facility. So the team assembles (not going to waste your time with actor names) and head off to find him. You have your usual cookie cutter characters here each with their specialty (acting not being one of them). Of course, they get to the base to find that they are conducting experiments to create super soldiers out of kids with epilepsy. This also leads to a sub plot of a grandfather who has his child abducted and taken away for this experiment, don't worry though, this is not very engaging either. The action scenes are terrible and I wouldn't be helping you any if I didn't point out the special effects are absolutely horrible. When the "monster" gets shot, repeatedly, which does nothing, the blood spatter is the biggest joke I have ever seen. How they thought anyone wouldn't just laugh at the effects that appear like someone did it with Microsoft paint to appear like blood is beyond me. Well, I have to say "snipe" as a character is the best one, not because the women could act or was believable, but because she was the only character that I didn't loathe throughout the movie. I will give them points for a plot twist that a 4 year old would've seen coming in the first 5 minutes of the movie but pays off at the end, so expect a lot of boredom for the 93 other minutes of this indie pile of rubbish. Please, even if free or on netflix, don't harm your brain with this one. Curse yourself later after watching but don't come back here and say I didn't warn you. 1.6/10 IMDb 3.5 from 356 votes(movie came out in 2010 and that few votes???). In other words, the cast giving high ratings skewered the numbers from people that watched it, not worked for the crew.

I originally saw this movie at a film festival and determined its a must have movie. This movie has action, adventure and drama! This film delivers even on a budget. Viewers are left wanting and waiting for a sequel. The actors in this film deliver a riveting performance and the story is very impactful. Vicki Askew & Jaimee Gray Simon are beautiful additions to the cast and 'Big' Mike Ulm is just fearsome looking as The Beast. Darrin Dickerson went well above and beyond with this multiple award winning film. As I have told many of my friends you would do yourself a disservice of not having this movie as part of your collection.

THIS is how you maximize a minimal budget and put out a product that looks like a million bucks.D4 tells the story of hired mercenaries on a simple search-and-rescue mission in the woods that goes quite askew when they are beset up on by a very big, very angry monster of a man, a product of science run amok. On the surface, this appears to be a fairly straightforward tale. However, the filmmakers' choice to tell the story non-sequentially adds layers of ever-deepening mystery and nail-biting suspense to the proceedings. Just how deep does this conspiracy go? Well, let's just say, just when I thought I had it all figured out, I was wrong.Very wrong.Dickerson manages to elevate D4 miles above its micro budget with excellent camera work, a talented ensemble cast, and pulse-pounding action helped out by tight fight choreography and stunts (believe me, I'm a stickler.)I hope D4 gets the attention that it deserves, because the love and care and attention to detail that was put into it really shine, and it should be held up as a model for other low-budget movie makers to aspire to.I have spoken.