Okay, I wanted to see this movie for one reason and ONLY one reason: Lately Marvel comic books have been reincarnating their works that have already been adapted to screen and will continue to do it (There is yet a third Fantastic Four movie in development), I decided to look at the first Nick Fury incarnation because I want to compare it to the recent, more well known Samuel L Jackson incarnation. Needless to say, this one is inferior.David Hasselhoff's performance as Nick was rather tiring, he could not act the part of Nick Fury (An expected turn), but surprisingly he is not the worst actor in the film. The worst actor in the film is Sandra Hess, the main antagonist, This has her doing an over-the-top performance with an unconvincing German accent. Needless to say I was rooting for Fury to kill her NOT because of the writing.Now onto the writing, David Goyer has done some pretty good work, even by this point. But this time round (although he is not entirely to blame with this movie) it was sub-par in comparison, it was like a low-budget B-movie with a villain with cheesy material. He was doing better material for Blade and therefore made me jump to the conclusion he cared more about Blade than he did about this.So in my opinion this is only worth the watch if you are a Nick Fury fan (of which I am not, I just don't find him that interesting as a character) or want to see how Marvel Comics has improved over 14 years with this character.

I have honestly not read all that much about S.H.I.E.L.D.(though I wouldn't mind doing so), but I would wager that those in charge of this haven't, either. They certainly don't manage to raise the characters presented in this above base stereotypes by endowing them with a shred of actual personality, make this anything more than a forgettable, unintentionally campy and cheesy B-grade action-flick or treat the medium of comic books with greater respect than Schumacher did, or that Batman got on TV in the 60's. So, Nick comes out of retirement to combat bad deeds, in the form of hideously overdone German accents(so thick that one has to be in awe of the... sigh... actors' ability to actually deliver lines without choking), as spoken in by the villains, with pure evil particularly being incarnated in Andrea, who has a serious fixation on her pinkie, and Werner's eyes that were cast primarily because they come off as being up to no good. All four of them ham it up enough to cause the entire vegetarian population worldwide to stand up and protest. How will the continually grumbling Hasselhoff ever defeat such wrong-doers? Don't worry. He's got Lisa Rinna, Rex Buckland and I Can't Believe It's Not James Earl Jones backing him up. You don't need depth perception to realize the sheer enormous amount of clichés in this(they may very well succeed in fitting every single one of them in). The plot is standard. Casting varies, David wasn't the worst possible choice. Fights and the like are relatively dull. This is mostly predictable. The effects are unimpressive. You get to see the Albatross... in fact, they were so proud of the one or two passes they did on it, they kept showing us that whenever an image of said vessel might help. Don't forget, in a movie put together by blind people, the one-eyed man will be spared at least some of the horror. Fox... why? There is relatively moderate and infrequent language, and violence and sexuality are similarly mild. I recommend this to those who must watch every single one of these, as well as anyone who wishes to MST3K it. 1/10

I watched this today and it was a cool flick. I saw it on Encore commercial free. It was not too tongue in cheek and had some death in it, so it wasn't A-Team excrement. To me a decent balance, it probably didn't get picked up because it had hot chicks in it and some death so they couldn't target it as family fare, and as you see here on IMDb.com, fan-boys despise this movie for some reason. I think that all comes about from a few posting things to look "cool", and a mass following so they are "cool" also. I mean, commenting on a comic book movie is never going to be cool, so I don't need to worry about that. Maybe its the newer gen of younger Marvel fans, they don't know what us middle aged fans went through and why I came up with a good rating for this film. Ever grow up watching the 60's animated Marvel shows, and that was all you could see, not something you picked up on youtube for nostalgia kicks? Ever watch the Spiderman or Captain America live action stuff that Marvel put out in the 70's, again because that's all you had? This movie is LIGHT YEARS from those POS examples. The thing that kept it all going were the comic books, I would get like 20 titles a month, it was ridiculous. A lot of it was smeg like two in ones but then there was Kirby and later Miller who I picked up as stuff from the badly used bin or was lucky enough to have been a subscriber when they made their impacts. OK so anyway, it must be cool to immediately hate Hoff but then why was there so much interest in redoing Knight Rider? Hoff was good, the FX was good, the chicks were hot, people died, Hoff got some action (implied) at the end. Compared to SCi Fi superhero series that got the green light like Robocop and Black Scorpion this one would have been really cool to watch. Too bad you fan boys spoiled it. 7 of 10, good job.

This is a steaming pile of poo! David H gives us a typical wooden performance.I take that back it is not a steaming pile of poo.Piles of poo at least feed flies!! What utter crap! The only thing you want at the end of this gobbler is TWO HOURS OF YOUR LIFE BACK!! After 20 minutes I wanted to claw out MY eyes. After an hour I thought that it couldn't get any worse. After 90 minutes, CRAP! I was wrong IT GOT WORSE!! BLECH!!Mary McK