This movie was very good. I'm surprised that the discussion board is so dead, along with the votes. It deserves a lot more publicity. It had fantastic acting, special effects, action...basically everything you want from a movie. When I saw this movie, I thought that IMDb would be full of users discussing it, but I realized that it wasn't as well-known as I thought. Well, that was a shocker for me. The movie was great, way better than I had expected when I saw it on the shelf at Blockbuster. Buy it, or at least give it a chance and rent it. You wont regret it.Go see the movie, it rocks!

It could have been worse if it was longer. I rented this movie based on the synopsis on the back. Here is the first line: "Former Navy Seal Lamont Dixon (Eddie Griffin) thought he left his fighting days behind when he became a tugboat captain... "Okay I really rented the movie based on my vision of the pitch someone had to give to get this movie made.My vision of the pitch:"Okay.... Eddie Griffin.... okay... stay with me.... Eddie griffin is a retired Navy Seal.... okay.... stay with me.... now he's a tug boat captain!.... okay stay with me.... he fights terrorists from his tug boat! HAHAHAHA... but it's not funny... okay, okay, stay with me.... "I had to see THAT movie. Turns out Griffin is a firefighter!???!?! WHAAAA?? I thought he was a navy seal! I wanted Navy Seal action. He's a firefighter with PTSD?!?!? Not funny, bad acting, lame action. Don't get me wrong, I am usually okay with bad movies. But I need to see some kind of over the top, outrageous, action scenes. The Transporter 2 that was a bad movie worth seeing. I would even see that again. I wanna see a jet ski chase down a bus on the freeway in every bad action movie! The only funny part of this movie is the explanation from Breckin Meyer about why his parents named him Jamal. I'm naming my kid Jamal.All in all unless your a HUGE Eddie Griffin fan. NEVER SEE THIS MOVIE! EVER!

OK, so in my opinion this is either the most brilliant satire on the action genre done by those who write and direct in it, or it is the worst possible action piece of crap since Segal's Into the Sun.Either way you should be laughing your ass off.The plot is so obvious in the way action films are. All the actors appear to have taken acting lessons from Van Damme for this one (wooden as chopsticks). People have the BEST\worst lines ever with such gems as "They're using flares!" in a fearful way.I am surprised nobody else thinks this was a straight satire where the best way to make fun of the genre is to do it without smiling. I mean, they used stock footage of Backdraft and Top Gun. This from the director of Segal's Submerged and the script writer from Street Fighter! I think people should have seen Eddie Griffin and not expect him to be a Lorenzo Lamas. His acting is as dumb and overdone as any of the greats in the action drama.So please, consider laughing at this one instead of pissing about it being a poor action movie. ALL action moves are poor displays of cinema anyway (minus Bruce Willis films). They are great because they are cheesy, and this my friends takes the cake and kicks a grenade into it.

I read the script for this thing while I was an intern at the agency that helped cast it, and it sounded great to me. It was originally intended for LL Cool J, rewritten by Steven DeSouza as ULTIMATUM at one point, but I'm glad to see the BLAST version, which I'm told was predicated on Eddie Griffen taking an interest, saw the light of day. I'm glad they added Vivica A. Fox to the cast - we haven't seen her do a full lead (KILL BILL VOL. 1 was kind of a cameo, I thought) in a long time, and I miss her. MPCA could use a big hit, too, and if executed well, this might do it. We'll see.-Khan http://rottentomatoes.com/vine/j/akhan41