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5.4/10
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A group of kids venture into enemy territory in an audacious attempt to rescue their Navy Seal fathers who were captured during a failed mission in North Korea.A group of kids venture into enemy territory in an audacious attempt to rescue their Navy Seal fathers who were captured during a failed mission in North Korea.A group of kids venture into enemy territory in an audacious attempt to rescue their Navy Seal fathers who were captured during a failed mission in North Korea.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Christine Harnos
- Adrian Phillips
- (as Christina Harnos)
Ian Michael Giatti
- Bobby Howard
- (as Ian Giatti)
Wendy Gordon
- Newscaster
- (as Wendy Jill Gordon)
Tom Nelson
- Capt. Stillman
- (as Commander Tom Nelson)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe prison camp set in this movie was built (and still stands) at Deer Park Heights outside of Queenstown, New Zealand (where much of the filming of Rohan was also done for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)).
- GoofsThe C-130 carrying the SEAL team was cleared to takeoff on runway 39. Runway numbers correspond to the magnetic heading of the airstrip. There are 360 degrees in a compass. Only 2 numbers are used to designate the runway heading to the nearest 10 degrees, i.e., 01 is 10 degrees, 09 is 90 degrees (due East), 18 (due. South), 27 (due West) and 36 (due North)...or any one in between, but there cannot be a 39 as there.are only 360 degrees in a circle.
- Quotes
Max Rothman: [after being asked to get the mission orders] No. No! My dad will buy an electric chair and my mom will pull the switch.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Adjust Your Tracking (2013)
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Highly incredulous and implausible
I like movies that have some realism in them, except if realism will spoil the effect, like in fantasy or science fiction movies. This, however, is about a group of kids going into North Korea to save their parents. That is already highly incredulous as a main plot setting, but the way it is played out makes it impossible to believe at all. Though it may be remotely possible that things can happen the way they did in the movie, the plausibility rating is so low as to be unbelievable.
For example, kids with no formal training who can shadow suspects, evade guards, slip into fortresses totally unnoticed, practice cover and concealment from professional soldiers without training at all....and much much more. See it to believe it, or rather, to disbelieve it. The only saving grace is somewhat okay acting from the young cast, though at times it is very grating to see them in such contrived settings.
For example, kids with no formal training who can shadow suspects, evade guards, slip into fortresses totally unnoticed, practice cover and concealment from professional soldiers without training at all....and much much more. See it to believe it, or rather, to disbelieve it. The only saving grace is somewhat okay acting from the young cast, though at times it is very grating to see them in such contrived settings.
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- Sep 21, 2000
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,855,392
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,194,037
- Aug 7, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $5,855,392
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