For a movie with such a stupid name, LAND OF BAD is actually pretty good. It's a soldier survival story starring the hunkiest hunks who ever hunked. Rookie officer "Playboy" (Liam Hemsworth) joins a Delta Force team on a dangerous rescue mission in southern Philippines. This team includes Abel (Luke Hemsworth), Bishop (Ricky Whittle), and "Sugar" (Milo Ventimiglia). When everything goes wrong, the team is forced to rely on an Air Force drone pilot "Reaper" (Russel Crowe) as their eye in the sky. The farther into this movie I got, the more I enjoyed it. It successfully brought me to the edge of my seat; lucky I had a seatbelt. This has moments of slow-motion, but they feel more earned than normal and not over-used. One of the few movies where I liked the slow-motion is this movie, and 300. The actors did a good job, the highlight being Russel Crowe of course. He's fighting his own kind of war against incompetent dude-bros who care more about watching a basketball game than actually doing their life-or-death jobs. The movie can get pretty violent, but that just added to the realism. My one problem was that I wanted more details about the bad guys. Overall, I feel bad for LAND OF BAD because it had almost no marketing behind it, and I don't think it'll survive the "DUNE-fall" that's coming. If you enjoy this type of movie, I'd say go see it now before it disappears.
Review of Land of Bad
