In this little action horror film, Ray Stevenson of Rome fame plays the leader of a group of mercenaries sent on a secret mission in Eastern Europe. Stevenson does an OK job, although with the direction firmly focused on the horror and action, not much effort is made to provide us with character substance. An effort is made to make each mercenary somewhat recognizable, at the level you would find in the first Predator, but it's not as successful as far as I am concerned.
The supernatural element pops up once the mercenaries (accompanied by an agent of their mysterious employers) find the location of their mission, a bunker used by the Nazis in experimentations.
From a character development standpoint, the mercenaries arrive so fast to the bunker that their badass aura is not clearly established. And then horrible things happen, due to some mystical Nazi mumbo jumbo. The weird science involved is poorly thought out and explained but the actual result makes for typical action horror, although nothing to write home about.
The action is not very spectacular, nothing is particularly scary but fans of horror movies will probably find this entertaining enough. The director went for washed color scheme that doesn't seem terribly appropriate to me, the dialogues are rather flat but it obeys basic rules of the genre. The acting is not terribly convincing. It was a disappointment after seeing Ray Stevenson do such a good job in Rome.
The supernatural element pops up once the mercenaries (accompanied by an agent of their mysterious employers) find the location of their mission, a bunker used by the Nazis in experimentations.
From a character development standpoint, the mercenaries arrive so fast to the bunker that their badass aura is not clearly established. And then horrible things happen, due to some mystical Nazi mumbo jumbo. The weird science involved is poorly thought out and explained but the actual result makes for typical action horror, although nothing to write home about.
The action is not very spectacular, nothing is particularly scary but fans of horror movies will probably find this entertaining enough. The director went for washed color scheme that doesn't seem terribly appropriate to me, the dialogues are rather flat but it obeys basic rules of the genre. The acting is not terribly convincing. It was a disappointment after seeing Ray Stevenson do such a good job in Rome.