Battle Drone (2018)
7/10
Not as much of a B-Movie as you'd expect!
13 September 2020
Awful and would just be noise in the background. I ended up stopping doing work and enjoying the film.

A group of mercenaries are hired by the CIA on a mission by mission basis and their next job is in Chernobyl, unfortunately for the 6 mercenaries and their CIA handler, the once deserted wasteland is home to a whole bunch of killer robots, out to add them to the ghosts of Chernobyl.

You have all types of mercenaries here that you will ever need, the disgraced Captain who should never have been disgraced, the hard as nails women sniper, the psychopathic one, the silent ninja one, the guns specialist and the big Russian indestructible one.

However, you also have a pretty decent cast, Louis Mandylor, bulking up from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Natassia Malthe is very good as the sniper, Dominique Swain in the first action role I have seen her in and I'm now trying to find other films on her reel, as she impressed and Oleg Taktarov as the Russian in all films needing a big Russian (Predators, National Treasure, Rollerball and Miami Vice). He's bliming good as a big Russian, though a bit typecast!

Expect friendly banter between mercs, choreographed fight scenes, the ninja one doing ninja things, the psycho one being psychopathic, the women proving they can kick but as well, the gun one using guns, the Captain brooding over his lot in life and looking out for his team and the big Russian one being big and Russian.

The film also goes against what I thought was going to happen, I thought it would be a by the numbers, everyone gets taken out one by one, but in many ways, I was so wrong. The cast obviously enjoyed making it and for 90 minutes of action, it's worth a go. A 13/20 from me though I reckon many of you will disagree with me.
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