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.

The Nike-Hercules missile site used to try to launch the anthrax missiles is an actual former Army (NORAD) air defense site. I served at two of these sites (which actually surrounded all the major US cities at one time). The movie site is an accurate restoration of how they worked. I was a Target Tracking Radar operator, and worked inside of what was basically a semi trailer except it was crammed with electronics and radar screens, all illuminated with red lighting. Our missiles were launched from above ground, after being elevated from underground bays.Information out these sites is scarce, hence my desire to pick up a copy.BTW, the comments by the Colonel that other (third world) nations are still using Hercs for surface to air defense is probably true.

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!

I stopped watching this film after the first 30 minutes, in part because I couldn't believe the barefaced theft of the anthrax-stealing scenes from TERMINATOR 2. How is it that only one other commenter noticed this?The other killer was the supposedly high-tension scene involving the ATF and the military officers. I haven't seen such a badly played-out display of machiso since LOST IN SPACE.