Land of Bad
Land of Bad
Land of Bad’ is a frustrating military actioner which places two heroes, one of the heroes is more believable there than the other. With a botched operation aimed at retrieving hostages, the heroes contend with terrorists who torture and would later seek to moralize the plight of a hostage cut off from the rest of the world (it is incredible).
The most interesting part of ‘Land of Bad’ is when hero #1 is present on the screen, physically solid but skill-weighs girl Amy Kinney (Liam Hemsworth) – J.J. “Playboy” Kinney of the Air Force. Thanks to the well-done action choreography as well as the film shoots, Hemsworth is accepted as an action figure.
His co star Russell Crowe is not lazy as well, although it is difficult to enjoy his role has come across as an annoying hero number two. Crowe features as Captain Eddie ‘Reaper’ Grimm, a pilot of a drone who has poor social skills but is good at his job which involves trying to save Kinney from the terrorists and missile onslaught but later from rescuers.
There’s something very loveable about Crowe when he’s focused hungrily on hollerative map-lit screens and passing on and expanding knowledge with his assisting wing-lady, Staff Sergeant Nia Branson (Chika Ikogwe). It’s actually a great deal less charming in regard to how Grimm’s been largely riding the film’s excessive sap about how the military ignores competent and worthy professionals like him who have to rise to make themselves heard.
“Land of Bad” might as well market itself as a sniper and rescue quest, after all, “post Black hawk down”, but this is more often a flabby, no holds barred, dramatized polemic of what really is the matter with American army, and today’s warfare.
In his place, Hemsworth, as Kinney’s handler, is pursued by Grimm’s stranded, yet proficient, soldier, as he strives to shoot, scale, and swim through the barrage of blood souls to fetch out a deep-urgent hostage. This particular captive is one of the CIA agents who was working undercover to extract information from an active Russian arms dealer.
All that becomes irrelevant the moment the engagement involving Kinney’s unit begins against their merciless foes whom some onscreen exposition claims are “the most violent extremist organizations in the southern part of map Asia”.
Most of the creators of Land of Bad, usually address these issues in economies of scale, where any of the antagonists only becomes an impediment for Kinney except for one or two important situations which seek with great effort to do well why those are really the most bad.
These kinds of people seem to be out of place in religion and relish their illness and ‘practice’ their psychosis on their captives in a cave prison that resembles the movie ‘Saw’. “I look a man in the eye and I make my choice intimate,” one torturer-terrorist flies high on the tortures he makes, after Kinney exclaims “That’s not the conversation we should be having right now” and then an interconversation begins (as it always does).
If there’s one, when is it? Perhaps not here in Land of Bad, where hero #1 manages to come off as the one with a huge backlog of speech 3, explaining himself only when its too boring to endure, and what hero #2 ought to do as well.
Grimm’s a neurotic mess – a bad-tempered recluse on energy drinks who despises snotty Colonel Virgil Packett who is played by one Daniel MacPherson. Forthright and tough, Nurse Kelly Brenson reasons out the pathetic cruelty of Sirius and demands for more generous sentiments.
Grimm is picky about his working chair. He makes a big whoop about coffee pods if they are in Keurig and then genuinely solemnly informs Branson of how a marriage is. “The most, perhaps, meaningful social ceremony that mankind has invented ever”.
He was also the one who was told that Kins would be the only person capable of bringing back Kinney in one piece. Which is a cyclical split characterisation that is quite unbearable bearing in mind how glacial and many of Grimm’s scenes are. Why is there a mass of hero #2 in this picture, actually zero in picture two-Hero #2 must this and much more for rather Hero #1 and Hero # 2 can get along matters.
Grimm form perfectly nails down in this case what exactly is so grating about most of these scenes of his, justice and revenge, when more than lifestyle drama, on Kinney and Kinney’s almost wooing over gruesome and sometimes… exciting, if such a word can be applied understatement.
He includes people’s preferences on other subjects while describing his fourth wife to Branson. How do you know that someone is a vegan is an old joke which he narrates to branson. “You tell them,” he chuckles burying his head into contemplation.
In just about any type of “Land of Bad”, the scene where each character goes out of his way to show you why he is the best at what he does is not that bad; at least relative to when they are pathetically trying to make you see wannabe psychowards as real living people.
Director William Eubank already established his technical skill and proper comprehension in several previous feature films, including the disaster action with Kristen Stewart, ‘Underwater’ (2020). Therefore, it is not a surprise that “Land of Bad” does not ring true and whines foul in the action scenes.
Indeed, it is even balanced, and gorgeous but unnerving since it is well lit and staged and has lots of action. It is even a nuclear missile where a hill full of savages (and their truck!) is incinerated. All this indicates what this latest of Eubank has on offer.
Any inept hostility that “Land of Bad” could be said to be guilty of, is of the most rudimentary pleasures, like for instance when Milo Ventimiglia, who also appears in this picture, stabs a bad guy in the throat with a broken plate.
Perhaps Eubank and his associates would have produced a more entertaining film had they simply made an elevated generic film. In its current form, “Land of Bad” is a mindless drivel genre drama with a few thrills of an action movie.
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- Genre: Action, Thriller
- Country: United States
- Director: William Eubank
- Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Russell Crowe, Luke Hemsworth
