Black Ops | 
| Director: Rebel Wan
Actors: Jim Hanks, Lance Henriksen, James Russo, Gary Stretch, Grant Mathis
Studio: First Look Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 50611
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FLPD12379D
UPC: 687797123794
EAN: 0687797123794
ASIN: B00132D7UO
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: May 20, 2008
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Just Simply Stupid May 10, 2009
Christopher J. Martin (Lynchburg, VA)
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Blackops, a thriller with a no-name cast is perhaps one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen.
The premise is that a re-commissioned ship from World War II being used off the coast of Iraq for "black ops" or completely off the books, interrogations, looses contact with U.S. military forces. A U.S. Marine task force along with two "scientists" are sent to investigate the cause. When they arrive, they find nearly everyone on the ship dead. The cause? A terrorist named Fadawi, or is it?
What at the outset seems like a run of the mill average post-9/11 movie about terrorism and Iraq turns into a supernatural horror film focusing on fictional experiments done by the Nazis during World War II. There is a supernatural entity aboard the ship, created by the Nazis. One that the U.S. government wants to "capture" and use for their own anti-terrorism purposes. Of course, in post-Iraq invasion Hollywood, the U.S. government has to be portrayed as sinister and sending their soldiers to die in a mission they didn't inform them of the details, and will use their deaths to justify another invasion in the Middle East.
At an hour and a half, this movie might be ok if a horror fan is really bored, and if you're predisposed to hate the U.S. government and U.S. military. But otherwise I just can't recommend it. Too many plot elements are haphazardly explained, or just happen and the explanation is left out entirely. The movie also seems to live on gore, as the majority of the killings, and the entire first quarter of the movie when the Marines are sweeping the ship looking for survivors, is absolutely needlessly bloody.
The back of the DVD case does not mention this movie has anything to do with the supernatural or that it's, essentially, a horror film. If it had, I would have skipped it entirely.
In short, this movie is just awful.
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