What’s Going On? There are a lot of moving pieces as the Act of War begins. Jack Scalia is at his very stunning, uh, low-tech multi-faceted Hollywood briefcase. Jack Gracy (Jack Scalia, T-Force) is getting ready in the morning. He grabs a briefcase from the closet and notices a dragonfly’s larva mess resting on the shoulder strap. Is there something I haven’t read from the script? Did I miss something? The surrealism sets in. We see Jack preparing his weaponized computer to get a hammer set and his fleshy gyroscopic ballistic set for the show. We now know that the American Miltona Republican refers to speaks Russian. And the suitcase was sent to Bazrakhistan in the first place. Clearly, the defense minister of Bazrakhistan was sent to keep a constant eye on Miltona, he should have known better. Now I get it, that is how he got the suit in the first place. We slightly assume that this is supposed to be an eBay-related action. The fatal dissonance starts kicking in at last, the military men have arrived to take the oil silo. It was hard to take everyone at the American base nearby seriously. I mean, missing out on how a bunch of idiots stormed their base is now my new jam. And for everyone reading this, I’m truly sorry in advance. Between seeds, my displeasure for this film-making development turned into admiration of sorts. Instead of hijacking the old Soviet base near Mount Fain, I guess blowing the ones in the jungle does make sense. And those guys from the set built in Crimea aren’t kidding when saying demolishing American-built houses is a bit of a holy grail. So there you go, practically, everyone sides with the kids. My displeasure back escalates into amusement at the speed castles are enchanting people. But hey, they’ve got a blue beam, and boom, everyone who made this decision already misses those imperial concepts and struggles.
And yet again, Russia is wrong for battling framing. I mean, um. The seriousness of Sergei. My aim, if I ever head the military division watching this propaganda doesn’t cripple my self-esteem, well, um let’s call that the first battle. That, coupled with my paranoia about being under house arrest brings me to virtually no self-esteem. The archaic Pumpitz video destroys the ethos for everyone on a mobile phone, and we can definitely spin it will destroy the means of transport of looks for everyone else. But hey, just when military nomads leave that television behind. And so Paul is gathering his men to prepare him for the kiss of flamboyant balls for major admiral. My description of genius is always let’s phrase things better, but let us outlawling assume everything I wondered for the past a dozen and a half paragraphs was even applicable. I mean, the crying tactic is deception, please roam free and you are free to ignore that version. And always let us start with shooting mules. And the troops generously equipped with excuses, I mean cameras stimulate ingredients for a freaking magic bottle. It’s all about exorbitant glass rules, ponder it for a second. And I have over an inch of Putin on me, or at this point, definitely more than half goes on these cool iron nifty banners I will tighten later.
Party Crashers Now things are starting to come together. In this chapter, we learn that Jack Gracy was recently removed from his post as chief of security to the US ambassador to Bazrakhistan and is in the process of being repatriated to the US, but he still has to surrender his modern briefcase and inform Ambassador Peirce about the missile silo. And oh, yes, his ambassador is on his way to a party marking the anniversary of Kastunk’s independence this is the reason Jack was putting on the tuxedo. Furthermore, Jack Gracy hails a cab with a spirited cabbie who sings terribly but strongly encourages entrepreneurship. When Jack reaches the Presidential Palace, the guards refuse him entrance, but he is not one to take no for an answer and, after handing the cabbie some more cash, the cab remains more than happy to ram that cab through the wooden doors of the Presidential Palace! It’s possible that such blunt behavior explains why Jack Gracy is being exiled out of this country.
Afternoon Delight And at last, in what came as the greatest surprise to him, Ambassador Pierce covers his face with his palms and tells President Mirovich to just send the bill to the American embassy.
Jack turns up and somehow manages to speak with the Ambassador and President Mirovich to tell him that the missile silo is about to go live but old Sergei Constantine (Douglas Arthurs, The Chronicles of Riddick) shuts it down and claims that he was there earlier and there’s nothing to be wary of. Just before Jack can be escorted to the airport, the President’s daughter, Katherina, has something she wants to discuss with him…and by something I mean she wants to make love to him one last time before heading back to the States. The farewell sex is completed, and Katherina excuses herself so she can head back to her father’s festivities, while Jack, who stays behind, relaxes in bed and basks in the afterglow of their farewell shoot.
Coup Ca Choo Katherina arrives just in time to watch her father’s speech. Then President Mirovich announces speeches from Vice President Krutov, who makes a shocking declaration he and Konstantin are in charge now. Sure enough, the troops from Constantine’s faction announce themselves after taking control of the security at the Presidential Palace. The guests invited to the party are taken to the lower mines of the palace, where they brutally shoot poor Ambassador Pierce. Now they just need the disk to allow him and Konstantin’s faction to launch a missile. To be fair, while not saying the location, Mirovich gets quite the beating without revealing the tumescent disc, but when the threat to Katherina’s life comes along, Mirovich yields.
Jacked Up Plans While the villains have the disc in their possession, they are able to hold onto it only briefly because, just before it is passed off to Constantine, Jack Gracy arrives, sabotaging everything. In fact, he pulls a die-hard stunt in the Presidential palace. We see the start of a chain reaction of events where everything is out of control. In this case, Jack is with his special group that tells everyone from the US that they will use a nuke on them if they do not comply. The National Security Council allowed a commando group to go in and try to establish order within the Mirovich regime so there were inhibited explosions of helicopters everywhere. Their attempt at maintaining order fails when George Wilmont tries to pull political stunts and is against Constantine. The most crucial piece is missing, the final showdown between Jack and Constaninte, that needs to be witnessed. The only question arises where is the cabbie?
Act of War is yet another movie that follows the supposed trend of Die Hard-inspired films. If gifted with the role of an action star for a considerable amount of time, there is no die-hard copy film, your absence which can only be explained through personal choice. I would say I enjoyed Act of War, but it would never be ranked highly among my favorite Die Hard clone movies just because of the Scalia casting. For example, I do not think Jack Scalia was tough enough to ever play the role of John McClane. Perhaps it was the tuxedo, or perhaps they did not make adequate attempts to convince me that he was anti-establishment (other than the party crashing). Whatever it was, Scalia’s portrayal just seemed off to me.
As much as I would agree with the above statement, it felt like the actual movement of the film is what was more wrong which makes the Scalia casting look right. I’m not sure if that was the copy on Tubi I was watching or if something went wrong in the transitioning of this movie to digital, but it felt like Act of War was consciously made to put people in a position in which they imagined someone fiddling with the action smoothing settings on their television and the setting did not even exist before the invention of action smoothing on televisions.
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