Born to Fight

BORN TO FIGHT (2004) - Nov. 22, 2008
About a group of athletes who travel to a small village, which winds up being occupied by brutal terrorists who plan to blow up Bangkok with a nuclear missile. The film opens with a really exciting, '80s-style action scene involving a fight atop two moving trucks. It's pretty sweet. It slows down quite a bit after that, with not much action to speak of until about the one hour mark, when the athletes start to fight back (who all conveniently get to use their sports skills to fight the terrorists). At this point it was almost literally non-stop action until the credits rolled. The amount of action towards the end was almost overwhelming, however it was mostly pretty sweet, and it was quite well directed (it was refreshingly devoid of both quick-cuts and close-ups during the action). There were also a lot of elaborate stunts that were impressive, to say the least -- I don't care how advanced special effects get, there's nothing that can compare to good old fashioned stuntmen getting into shenanigans. ***