GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Wordiezett So much average

PodBill Just what I expected

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Leofwine_draca MILITIA is a low-grade action thriller from B-movie director Jim Wynorski; it's a film best remembered for extensively ripping off footage from the 'Cyberdene' set-piece from TERMINATOR 2 early on in the proceedings. The rest is a hostage/siege/ATF agents vs. redneck loony slice of entertainment with lots of action and explosions and little in the way of wit. Dean Cain, coming fresh from TV's Superman, is particularly wooden here, while Frederic Forrest and Jennifer Beals give far better performances than required.

zardoz-13 This standard-issue, made-for-cable, action thriller about hunky ATF agent Ethan Carter ("Lois & Clark's" Dean Cain) going undercover to root out right-wing radicals that want to assassinate the President of the United States at a World Summit Conference is strictly routine from fade-in to fade-out. The first fifteen minutes sets up the plot as Agent Anderson (John Beck of "The Other Side of Midnight") spearheads a helicopter raid on a rural-based militia compound where the bad guys have illegal weapons. The most interesting thing about the opening shoot-out is that neither side wants to fire the first shot, and the fire shot is fired accidentally when a child drops his rifle and it discharges. My only question is how do the ATF guys in the chopper hear the kid's weapon discharge over the rotor blades? Our sharp-shooting hero Carter wounds the chief antagonist, William Fain (Frederick Forrest of "Apocalypse Now") and Anderson takes this notorious evil doer into custody to serve a 25 year sentence behind bars. Two years pass, and Fain cuts a deal with Anderson that gets the militia mastermind out of maximum security and on the right side of the law with the ATF. Fain agrees to infiltrate Agent Carter (Cain), the very same man who wounded him, into a group of fanatics run by a well-known radio commentator (Stacy Keach of TV's "Mike Hammer'), so that they can foil his nefarious designs. Meanwhile, the bad guys steal a vial of deadly anthrax (it resembles a test tube of urine) from a federal laboratory. Prolific movie maker Jay Andrews of "Extreme Limits" supplements this scene of derring-do with footage from James Cameron's "Terminator 2," right down to the conspicuous Cyberdyne sign outside of the building. Later, the same two henchmen who swiped the anthrax occupy a government missile launching facility and load the anthrax into a cluster bomb rocket. Can we say "The Rock" with Sean Connery and Ed Harris? The formulaic action follows the numbers without missing a cliché. "Flashdance's" Jennifer Beals makes an improbable ATF agent named Saunders who acts as Carter's liaison in the field. Early on, Carter and Saunders clash over her dire lack of experience and how her best efforts seem designed to incriminate him in the eyes of the opposition. Later, she gets to prove her own sharp-shooting skills in one scene where she ices an obnoxious villain. The best thing about her wooden performance is that she doesn't look like she has aged a day since "Flashdance." Several familiar faces also flesh out the cast, notably Michael Cavanaugh of "The Enforcer," blubbery Alabama native Brett Butler of "Grace Under Fire," and portly Stacy Keach as a mealy-mouthed madman. Beefy cupcake Dean Cain doesn't get much to do during the middle section of "Militia" after he is taken captive by the bad guys. The surprise here isn't really much of a surprise. The fire-ball explosions look good, but like a lot of other things about this boilerplate melodrama, the producers lifted them from movies such as "American Ninja 2" and "Delta Force 2." Altogether, this highly far-fetched but tolerable shoot-em up isn't as bad as some say, but neither does "Militia" stand out from the crowd. Andrews directs with his customary impersonal style. If you're looking for blood, gore, and breasts, prepare to be disappointed. The superficial screenplay doesn't make much out of our Constitutional right to bear arms, but it does make our hero sympathetic, because he claims that guns are tools for him, not collector's items. Again, you could do a lot worse or a lot better.

marcusnir As other people has commented, the baad showing of how the ATF works... I was standing in choice of "Militia" or "Blast from the past", I should have taken the other.... I almost turned my DVD off when I saw the ripoff from Terminator 2 & Cyberdyne System... But watched anyway if it would bee any more ripoffs and watch for "errors" in the movie. The car-chase.... The back-window implodes, but in almost all other scenes its not broken??? hmm... In the end I can´t figure out how the X-militia leader got the ATF clothes and a bunch of ATF-soldiers in the chopper??? When the blow the Militias Headquarters It looks like an old Castle rather than a big Villa....I thought they would give credits to T2 in the Credits, but they credited 2 other movies "American Ninja 2" and another nr 2.. Well this movie gets 1.5 from me!

DoyleMa The story was decent, but so much footage was ripped from other movies that it was kinda like watching a greatest hits movie. Going into this film, I knew it was low-budget, so the cheap SFX is understandable. Still a decent story....but there were also a lot of plot twists...maybe they should have named it Double Cross....