Thanks for the memories!

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

What starts as your any other action movie, ends with hard-core sci-fi. Nice cast, with good direction and very nice visual effects.

I found this movie randomly on NETFLIX when my 4 month old didn't let me sleep. As the movie started I checked the IMDb rating and trailer on my phone with my free hand and I noticed it was shot in Budapest. So I gave it a go: my wife, very exhausted joined too.The good: It was attention-taking most of the time although we laughed on the most emotional scenes. The soldiers did move / act like soldiers from a sci-fi / near future world. Budapest looked good with it's fantasy / gaming elements as a power plant / weapons research facility and huge buildings added to it. Budapest has already been on screen Berlin, Paris, Moscow, etc. - but Chisinau, Moldova? That was fun! I didn't regret watching it in this state.The neutral: It was a B category movie. (I haven't seen one for a long while.)The bad: Acting was terrible throughout (except for some soldiers). Okay, I've just said B category. One of the key points is a US Army military engineer's conflict that his work that destroys a lot of things - shouldn't be used to destroy human life. Yeeeeep, sure. speaking foreign language - a mixture of Romanian and Russian (the 2 languages spoken in Moldova, both being popular but you always use one of them with a person and you certainly don't mix the two during the same conversation) + adding Serbian (someone suggested Slovenian) words (why?) The US Army seems to be on the same side with the elite Communist soldiers against the "insurgents": the people of Moldova. Although allies no local soldiers are taken to fight - rather a fragile office woman with no combat experience gets to go. 'Cause she is American, I guess. US Army soldiers love children who shoot at them from AK-47. Did I mention that the whole movie's premise was totally stupid? If you shoot a movie in Budapest, using dozens of the major landmarks of the city - why wouldn't you call it Budapest? After all it's Eastern Europe too, isn't it? I thought this was a but like a war movie where people will fight (we are supposed to be in a civil war) but it's only the GOOD US soldiers fighting... ...ghosts (?)All-in-all: 4,5 / 10.

If any of you who reviewed this movie so harshly EVER watched a Star Trek episode, trust me, you would see the same ability to create high tech crap out of nothing in the blink of an eye. Scotty worked absolute miracles in under an hour. The real problem with some of these reviewers is that they simply do not know how to be entertained. If you want the perfect movie, totally believable, without plot holes, scientifically accurate, and beautifully filmed then make it your damn self. Oh, but not any of you can, cause you're not actual filmmakers. Just sad and negative people who can't be simply entertained and just have to ruin it for those of us who can. This movie is not great, that's true, but it is kinda fun and kinda goofy, and thouroughly entertaining to most normal people. I'm sorry that some of you expect EVERY movie to be a masterpiece. Maybe you should confine yourselves to watching classic movies and avoid anything new. SHEESH what a bunch of maroons.

I saw this movie with a bunch of friends last New Year's Eve. The plot is really thin and the acting is what you would expect from a B sci-fi movie. However, if you want to laugh at a bad movie with your friends, this is definitely a good movie for that (and only that) purpose. It has some horrendously bad jokes and the special effects are really goofy.