The Elite
The Elite
R | 28 February 2001 (USA)
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After the murder of their families by a terrorist bomb, five young adults are trained as a hi-tech, anti-terrorist team with a mission to search and destroy high-profile terrorist groups.

Reviews
jasoncross115

Actually, it does for a fact contain spoilers.I think it's pretty obvious that the makers of this movie had put no effort into making this movie. First of all, if the supposed terrorists blew up a plane to kill a bunch of political whatevers (I'm sorry if I can't remember exactly what) what would lead these innocent little kids to become targets? The Elite is so bad that all I did was stand back and marvel at it. From the extremely pointless kidnapping of the computer programmer just to operate a battleship to the "bar fight" scene on the battleship at the end, this movie is so horrible that it becomes fair quality. And let's not forget the part when that guy gets blown up by the cannon. You can't possibly take this movie seriously. It's so ridiculous, it's beautiful.PS: For all you FOX Sports fans, there's a guy in this movie who looks a lot like Joe Buck.

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daniel-j-doughty

the premise of the film is that they trained together since pre-pubescence. then in the first action scene they all act like they're meeting each other for the first time. I couldn't make it past the first 15 minutes. I don't know why Time Warner rated it a 2.5 out of 4...but it's an awful film.oh yeah, and even the first scene sucks. the guy comes in and is asked to shoot one of his undercover cohorts. Of course he gives in and tries to shoot the villain instead. And there's a bloody ICBM in an Austrian chapel...Europeans would never do something like that to their heritage. Hell, even Americans plant them out in the middle of nowhere amongst the corn and wheat.

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eibon

This flick was much better than expected. Great Action (in the tradition of the James Bond movies), good acting and superb locations. This movie sure is above b-standards! If you love bad guy Jürgen Prochnow you will also love this movie.

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corky-27

This grade-B flick is actually a cut above your typical made-for-cable fare, notably because there is a semblance of plot to add to the by-the-numbers action sequences. A young "elite squad" of trained anti-terrorists take on Jurgen Prochnow in a by-now expected villain turn, and there's a personal twist to the proceedings as well. All of the cast is awfully pretty (at first it was difficult to distinguish between any of the three blond male leads, two of whom are twins!), and the beautiful Maxine Bahns kicks some terrorist butt as well (not so far-fetched, as I learned from her IMDB bio that she's a triathlete in real life). All in all, a pretty decent way to waste a sleepless night while surfing the cable box. 2 stars (out of 5) on the Corkymeter.

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