2017 2018 movie navy seals help recover treasure from world war 2

The climactic underwater fight scene cannot rival Top Secret!, let alone Thunderball. The issue is compounded when our heroes don scuba-diving masks during a third act set largely in a lake.

They enjoy fewer than five minutes of screentime between them, but still leave more of an impression than the actual team of renegades, who seem to merge into one beefcake entity. Lee Ermey impression, while Ewen Bremner - following his turn in Wonder Woman - pops up for the lesser of his two renegade soldiers. Simmons cameos for three incredibly brief scenes doing his best R. In perhaps the film’s most baffling scene, our heroes engage in a fistfight with a team of SAS soldiers, set to Ini Kamoze’s 1994 reggae fusion hit Here Comes The Hotstepper.Įlsewhere, J.K.

Besson’s dialogue has always warmly embraced cliché, and there’s plenty of pleasingly hammy lines here (“If it’s got a trigger, I can shoot it,” is only slightly less stupid than, “The thing about gold is, it’s heavy”), but the film uncomfortably uses the horrors of World War II and the Bosnian genocide as a backdrop to goofy wisecracks and gold-rushing. The tone never settles on something solid. There's plenty of pleasingly hammy lines, but the film uncomfortably uses the horrors of World War II and the Bosnian genocide as a backdrop to goofy wisecracks and gold-rushing.

2017 2018 movie navy seals help recover treasure from world war 2