Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia (2009)

In this straight-to-video (I think) release, Seal Team Seven(one better than team six dontcha know) gets caught up in a power grab in Colombia.  I’ll keep this one short, as there’s not a lot to talk about, really.

Take some lesser-known actors, add a dash of Rambo, the A-Team, WWE wrestler “Mr. Kennedy,” plenty of action scenes and tons of corny (and badly delivered) one-liners, and what do you get?  This.

They get stranded in Colombia after being framed for an attack on the compound they were about to bail out of, and of course have to prove their innocence.  All this while the CIA (or is it NSA, get your bureaus straight lol!) takes over the operation to try and preserve some diplomatic face….

And actually, somwhat ashamedly, I kind of enjoyed it.  Yeah it has its flaws.  Plenty of them.  But this is a fun little action movie at its core.  Not to bloody, not too far over the top, not a lot of profanity (but just enough,) no big message, and no pretentiousness to speak of.  If I had to put a label on it, I’d say this is definitely one of those “guy” movies.

The ending though, was a bit too abrupt for me, and there were a couple of continuity faults that I noticed, and the premise isn’t explained well enough.  Like I said, the acting isn’t top-notch, but it’s not half bad either.

File this under “Weekend afternoon popcorn muncher” and you’d be spot on.  It’d have been a lot better if those corny one-liners had been delivered with a little more setup and better timing!