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An eye opening documentary about the 1993 siege of a religious sect compound near Waco, Texas.
Plenty of hunks for the ladies to goggle over but not enough battle scenes for a movie that is about one long battle and siege.
I get it the Diehl character is s'posed to be a microcosm of America itself - seeing Arab terrorists under every rock, only to find out at the end that it's his own actions all along that got him into that siege state and truly if he practices good-will to all men everything will be rainbows and lollipops.
The exception to "The Story of G.I. Joe" is a brief battle segment (titled "city under siege" on the DVD) which takes place in Italy.
Seagal hardly kills anyone unlike his over films where he goes one man army ie under siege 1 and 2 and exit wounds.
It's 1982, Two years after the Iranian Embassy Siege which involved the dramatic SAS Rescue from the Balconys, and with a War with Argentina over the Falkland Islands currently taking place, what better film to make than a Gung-Ho "SAS" Film that re-creates the Iranian Hostage siege, whilst using Britains Number one action hero of the day, Lewis Collins.
Over-looking its flaws this is still an interesting account of the famed and heroic siege of the Alamo during the Texas fight for independence from Mexico.
Only a few years later, Hitler would siege Germany and begin his plans to take over the world, France being a casualty of his ambitions.
This film deals with the harsh realities of a civilization under siege and also with Japanese culture superbly and the director here must tack a huge amount of credit.
As they eat, the characters find themselves shifting roles - those under siege take over the siege, those who staged the siege want out - and everyone wants to exploit their 15 minutes of fame.
When the bank is under siege of the police force, they are attacked by weird creatures.
"Diplomatic Siege" tells of those involved in the siege of the American embassy in Bucharest for the purpose of compelling the UN to release a Serbian officer being held for war crimes.
Suddenly his castle is under siege by a huge female rat.
From a dance-hall to the railroad yards to a bridge under siege by flood.
The one thing disappointed me was the omission of a large part of the story describing and narrating the siege of Plevne.
The group, under such dire circumstances, fall under siege and their situation grows worse every moment as the zombie army under Bloody Bill's lead aim to harm them, yearning for flesh.
It's about a family trapped in their home during an alien siege.
Maybe he should come out with under siege 3 get a couple of mainstream actors and directors involved.
A shuttle craft crew gets stranded on a hostile planet, and they must find a way to lift off again while dangerous creatures lay siege.
(Oh, did I forget to mention that those Mescaleros have a nasty habit of tying their prisoners to ant hills?) "Escape" boasts a very tough-talking script, with glints of humor coming from the bickerings between (those great character actors) Williams Demarest and Campbell, and its final third is remarkably suspenseful, as Roper, Carla and the escaped rebs are laid siege in a ditch, while the Mescaleros pick them off with rifle shot and lob volleys of arrows into their midst.
The Faber's peaceful existence gets jeopardized when a vicious horde of scummy, black leather-clad cannibalistic bikers led by the highly intimidating and intelligent Bigman (coolly underplayed by big, brawny, hirsute George Eastman lookalike Ian Steadman) stop by and lay siege to their house.
In contemporary British eyes, the greatest atrocities of the 18th and 19th centuries were those perpetrated on compatriots in the Black Hole of Calcutta or during the Indian mutiny and the siege of Khartoum.
Likewise, America’s “reset button” policy with Russia has certainly improved relations with the Kremlin, but it remains highly improbable that the Russians would endanger their privileged relations with Iran by joining an economic siege.
Nigeria’s Homegrown TerroristsLAGOS – Abuja, Nigeria’s sparkling new capital, is a city under siege.
But even the Fed’s flexibility is under siege.
And populist and nationalist parties have managed to paint a picture of a Europe under siege.
Thailand on the PrecipiceBANGKOK – The two-month siege of downtown Bangkok by the so-called “Red Shirts” has ended in bloodshed.
In this narrative, Thaksin masterminded the siege by hiring a small group of rogue army officers, and by paying the poor to go to Bangkok to start a civil war.
Without hope of relief, the garrison surrendered on April 29 th , 1916, after a siege of almost five months.
Then, set on a course of continued confrontation with the West, Russia might hunker down into a siege mentality, with the risk that the Kremlin might seek to compensate for economic failure with further revisionist behavior.
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