I love a good action flick. I’m not talking about a well made movie that fills the giant screen with name brand recognized stars duking it out with the latest bad guy. I’m talking about movies that eventually are released straight to DVD or that play third billing at a drive in. Some of these offer pure entertainment. And then there are movies like this one.
TACTICAL FORCE features a group of S.W.A.T. type police officers who start the film off by stopping a grocery store robbery in progress. The only problem is that they use excessive force to the extreme to take down these ridiculous clowns. Between the damager to the robbers and the damage to the store, rather than receive a commendation these police men are assigned to retrain over the weekend at a special facility.
Led by Tate (WWE start Steve Austin), they head to the secluded location, an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of town. Unbeknownst to those in charge, the warehouse is also where a European mobster has taken a snitch to get back a briefcase he stole from him. But wait, there’s more. The snitch has made a call to another mob guy who the case was originally stolen from and he’s on his way as well.
When the tactical force arrives, the European mob boss and his group hide. The tactical force makes its way through the upper floors of the building hitting targets with their paintball guns to try and improve their skills. An accidental sound downstairs leads them to check it out and one of their own is shot and killed. Weaponless they must try and find out who is down there and why.
Gunfights, double crosses and more double crosses, tough talk and ample enough brawls to keep the most ardent wrestling fan happy follow. Too bad there isn’t enough plot to make it work. And the plot that’s there is convoluted and so coincidental that even trying to accept this world is painful.
Austin has made some good movies, most direct to DVD. Co-star Michael Jai White has also done some great work (BLACK DYNAMITE is now one of my favorite films). But here they offer nothing new, extreme low budget film making and the greatest sin of all when it comes to action films, a boring flick. The budget is so low that while watching this I thought to myself “Hey…I think they filmed this in a building set to be demolished just so they could tear up the sets with their fights”. It looks that bad.
There is no way I could recommend this movie even to Austin and White fans. Instead, look for some other film they’ve made recently. Even a two for one coupon at a redbox would be wasted on this one.
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