7cb1d79195 A seasoned senior enlisted special operations (spec ops) United States Marine is wounded during combat operations in Iraq. He is retired from the Marine Corps and visits a friend on a ranch in the south west. When he arrives he discovers his friend has disappeared and no one will even admit to knowing of him. During operation Desert Storm in Iraq, the tough Marine Sergeant of Special Operations MacPherson and his great pal and family man, the Mexican Corporal Miguel Silva, are seriously wounded and retired. Later, the veteran and traumatized marine is insistently invited by Miguel to visit him in his lands in New Lago, a location nearby the border with Mexico. When MacPherson arrives in the town, he does not find his friend and he gets no information from the locals about Miguel. Soon he realizes that the CEO of Halicorp and vigilante, Rhodes, is buying cheap lands, giving infrastructure, constructing buildings, housing and facilities using slave labor from the needy Mexicans and making lots of money. When MacPherson finds that his family and friend have been executed by Rhodes, he promises to bring hell to God&#39;s land. Low expectations are seldom met for films that go straight to video. This is an exception for me.<br/><br/>Kilmer (McPhearson) plays a troubled marine who is sought out by a war buddy and travels to Arizona to reunite. When McPhearson arrives, he realizes that the town and its people are acting very strange. He meets Rhodes (Cole), who basically runs the town, and gets less than welcomed. The suspense thickensthe movie goes, adding a clever character twist at the end.<br/><br/>Kilmer does a good job with the role, but maybe I&#39;m bias because I&#39;ve liked his movies for a while. His delivery is solid, from interaction with Esposito to rugged one-liners with the bad guys. I even didn&#39;t mind him looking a little bloated, because he was playing the washed up war vet.<br/><br/>The only trouble I had was the way he tried to sell the excessively used close up blank stare, meant to show McPhearson suffering from his past. It simply came off bored.<br/><br/>The pacing is spot on. You dive right in with a shocking opening scene and build up accordingly into the meat of the story. It is pleasantly predictable at the right times, yet your left guessing when you want to be.<br/><br/>The ending is where this one will lose some. It starts to do what that string of films that destroyed Steven Segal&#39;s career did. Movies often step out of themselves at the end and beat you over the head with a message. This one gets a little self righteous, but not to where I thought it brought things down.<br/><br/>It&#39;s not Rambo or Die Hard, but if you&#39;re in the mood for a rental with solid action and suspense, its worth the four or five bucks. The word &quot;conspiracy&quot; secret plan to commit a crime and this has been portrayed in the this good, action, drama, movie which is more, or, less, in a style of good western style.<br/><br/>A soldier in the US Marines is wounded during a raid on a small house, in a town in Iraq - he loses a limb and leaves the marines. He then constantly has nightmares about the incident but keeps on receiving calls from a friend of his asking him for help in a town named New Lago. Eventually, he decides to go.<br/><br/>Val Kilmer, after a long time, has made a come back and this time in an action, drama, movie genre. The settings of the movie are those of a typical western town and people wearing cowboy hats but that is a part of the set and it suits it very much.<br/><br/>Eeventhough, the movie does contain some nudity and bloody scenes, it is one that is worthwhile to watch.
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