Best movie of this year hands down!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A former navy dude flips out and decides it would be a good idea to detonate a nuclear warhead above some unlucky continent.Martial arts crap all over the place, but things finally become interesting when sexy Sophia Crawford gets into a girl-fight with Karen Kim. Sophia plays a villain, but she's hot, so I was routing for her to kick Kim's butt and come out on top (I don't have to be on top every night). Kate Connor appears as a conservative chemist -- I kept waiting for her to take those glasses off of her pretty face, let her beautiful dark hair fall all over her shoulders, and strip down to her black bra and panties and show off her hot body, but she never did, which really sucked.Passable action flick partly because of the short running time making this a slightly better film.

I'm surprised at the number of people who have bashed this movie to pieces. They base their opinions off of logic too, which is completely inappropriate for this type of movie. Yes, the script is badly written, there are a lot of factual errors, this isn't an accurate portrayal of SEAL type stuff, yes all that is obvious.The reason why this movie exists is to present Hong Kong style action to America. Former Jackie Chan Stunt Team member, Andy Cheng designs some of the best fight scenes in recent years. While CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE, TOMB RAIDER 2, and THE MUSKETEER suffer from having no sense of action, US SEALS knows how to deliver the goods. It's interesting to note how a lot of weapon-work was employed in the action scenes. I was expecting more hand to hand style combat. The movie takes a while to get going, but the fights are well worth waiting for. Especially in a scene where the good guys are confronted by 100 henchmen, and have to fight all of them off. It was reminiscent of the big action sequence in TAI-CHI MASTER (1993).The director Issac Florentine is one of the few people working in the video market who does a good job. Unlike a lot of other directors, he takes pride in his job, and does his best to make cool movies. (COLD HARVEST and SPECIAL FORCES)It's safe to say though, that this movie is only meant for people who like lots of cool action. Everyone else is better off staying away.

Did any of you guys get a feeling like this movie was made by the people that made Power Rangers? I mean the style is very similar except for the more intense violence. Hell I bet one of the actors was probably from the Power Rangers show.

Ever watch a bad movie all the way through, desperately hoping it would have a redeeming feature? Don't do that with this one.I happen to like many somewhat cheesy military/martial art movies, and thought this movie would be a harmless departure for an hour and a half or so. Don't be fooled: It does harm. This is one of those movies that makes you pick up a book by Steven Hawking and read a page of it to prove to yourself that you are not really that stupid. While I enjoy watching movies to escape for a while, I have never been so eager to return to daily life. Why is that? I'm glad I'm not those actors, and the director, and anyone else whose resume is forever soiled with this movie. (underline, italics, the lot) This movie is as uplifting as an episode of The Anna Nicole Smith show (no pun intended), because it makes you say to yourself, "No matter what kind of financial or personal problems I'm having in my life, it could be worse."The acting makes Lorenzo Lamas look like Laurence Olivier, and that whooshing sound was so obnoxious and pervasive that it became an in-joke with my friends to make that sound when reaching for car keys, pulling them out of pocket, inserting in ignition, turning to start, putting in gear, and finally looking back over shoulder and striking a pose. The guns that are used in the opening of the film are not SEAL weapons, not American military weapons, not foreign weapons, ...come to think of it, they're not weapons. They are quite obviously made of wood. They don't shoot blanks or even have moving parts. This, along with the previously stated exploding waterlogged vehicle gave me pause during the opening credits -- should I cut off a limb while watching this 'movie' to see which I regret more in the morning?I have to give this movie a 1 of ten because imdb doesn't go lower.I'm glad so many people have already stolen my thunder about this movie because I think to spend another minute on this gives the film far too much power over me, and it wins. But I'm still not this movie, so I win.