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26 November 2005 (USA) morePlot:
Commandos in Iraq looking for terrorists find a man-eating monster instead. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Typical Sci-Fi drivel. moreCast
(Credited cast) | Robert Beltran | ... | Sgt. Baxter |
| Jeff Fahey | ... | Kramer |
 | Chase Masterson | ... | Ashley Pierce |
 | Heather Donahue | ... | Cpl. Keats |
 | Faran Tahir | ... | Umari |
 | A.J. Buckley | ... | Pvt. Sulley |
 | Jeff M. Lewis | ... | Ortiz (as Jeff Lewis) |
 | Richard Gnolfo | ... | John Busey |
 | Jonas Talkington | ... | Mouth |
| Michail Elenov | ... | Fathi |
| George Zlatarev | ... | Safa |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Benjamin Burdick | ... | Ryan |
 | Michael Cory Davis | ... | Dir. Tripp Reed |
 | Edmund Druilhet | ... | Sargent Cohen |
| Tripp Reed | ||
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Recipe on how to make a "Sci-Fi Channel (Un)Original production".
1) Get one or two out of work Star Trek actors. There are plenty of them nowadays. 2) Add low grade CGI special effects 3) a half-dozen no-name actors to be monster chow. 4) 3 Gallons of Catsup. (For the fake blood) 5) 1 Crappy illogical script.
Mix in movie for 2 hours (including commercial breaks).
The movie begins with some clips of Iraqis looting art treasures, and a squad of American soldiers lead by Robert Beltran, playing the kind of new-age castrati he played on Voyager for seven years. A reporter, played by Deep Space Nine's Chase Masterson, (who actually bothered to breath some life into a character) is trapped in a town menaced by the resurrected CGI Manticore. Beltran's squad is sent to rescue her.
Now, I often hate most military movies because they get so many things wrong, and this one is no exception. They have a Master Sergeant (E-8) leading a squad. They have a woman with an infantry team. They only send one vehicle on the rescue mission which they've deemed to be "important". The Sergeant is addressed as "Sir" by his squad. They use relaxed tactics in a hostile situation, allowing them to be picked off.
Other than that, what you see is a predictable mess, like you've seen in every other Sci-Fi production with a CGI monster.