Afghan Knights (2007)

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Awesome Movie

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Not sure what to think of this one.The first half is a dreamy war movie. A man is recruited as a mercenary for a rescue job in Afghanistan. He is broke and has post war nightmares but agrees to put his team back together.The second half of the movie is where things get weird. In Afghanistan the team eventually encounters paranormal dangers...and that is where the movie turns sour.The camera work is not great, but it is OK. Some shots linger for longer than needed and some angles are questionable. However the desert where the film was shot is pretty and the Middle-Eastern feeling carries over nicely.But the transition between shots starts making less and less sense towards the 2nd half; the story starts making less and less sense; the dialogue and character's actions start making less and less sense until the movie turns into an episode of a sci-fi channel show.The acting is not bad but it becomes increasingly badly directed and written so everyone starts either over-acting or under-acting.I think the viewers have been indoctrinated a little and expect a fast-paced logical and sensible movie with a particular structure and genre, while this movie is a bit different from that norm. This is the kind of movie you experience alone late at night in a state of partial trance, and after it is over you ask yourself what the hell you just experienced. The movie actually kept my interest until the end.On the other hand the film does ultimately fail at what it tries to be. It starts out as a slow-cooker war movie but it goes down hill from there until it becomes a z-movie thriller.

Out of every single movie I have ever seen so far, this is definitely in my "top 5 worst movies category". After reading some of the previous reviews, I'm somewhat confused. Why do you feel the need to give a movie 10 stars just to "balance things out"? That's not the point of a review. The point of a review is to be truthful and evaluate the overall film, not to be biased because you were involved in it. With that said. the fact that this person worked on the movie doesn't surprise me at all.The acting? Horrible. Dialogue? Horrible. Storyline? ... You get the idea. I would only recommend this to people lacking taste in movies. It is honestly that bad. The only reason why I didn't feel cheated was because I watched this at my friends house. Luckily, I didn't pay for the rental, but I still lost 90 minutes of my life on this film. He's in the military, and even he thought this movie was awful. If there are movies made in Hell, this one's it.

I thought the movie was well done. There was good acting (for the most part) the firefight, like was mentioned in another post on the pakistani border was well executed, and i have to agree, they should have had sound military advising from the onset of the movie. I enjoyed the musical score, which added to the supernatural/thriller aspect of the movie. I can't give it a ten, but i think a 7 is fair. maybe a six. There is a well known cast in the movie, Michael Madsen, Francesco Quinn, Steve Bacic and former WBC welterweight champion Gary Stretch, who, along with Madsen and Quinn, carried the movie. Good movie, but not something you are going to see in theaters, but worth a rent or an add to your collection if you are a Madsen fan

A quite average action/horror movie taking place in Afghanistan, following a group of private military contractors working on a contract to get an Afghan warlord out of Afghanistan for some 150 000 USD (to be divided between 7 or so mercenaries, former US military professionals). These are all burn-outs tired of military life and quite fond of alcohol. There is a strong emphasis on their friendship.Michael Madsen always seem to play the CIA mission brief operative, as seen in one of the James Bond movies. Madsen wears sun glasses and a "helluva" attitude with standard bravado. There seems to be a series of movies where Madsen carries leather jackets and sun glasses in various military roles, and I would place all these films around 5 or 6 points out of 10. There could be more originality in some of the plots.The Afghans are portrayed as backwards people, no surprise. The British SAS operative is the treacherous figure in the team. This fits into the US themed dangerous non-American bogey man concept, which has become more and more widespread. I only look for a film with a main Norwegian villain taking on American grunts. I have yet to see that.This film could be reminiscent of "Horror Train" from 1973 and with "The Bunker", with the horror theme revolving around psychosis and the supernatural. The soldiers, no surprise, are picked off one by one, with a sort of summary explanation of why and how by the end of the movie.For a more mature and eclectic movie watcher, the plot is somewhat too thin, but for an average American teen, this is probably better than they get in several US high schools on foreign studies.An OK movie to watch, but not anything great either. I gave it six, since it had some good psychological turns and realistic military combat. Minus for a predictable ghost story. For the same budget, I could have made this an Afghan-themed intelligence thriller with a more deep back-story.