Afghan Knights (2007)

Truly Dreadful Film

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Short and simple review without spoilers. Afghan Knights.Starts off with an interesting storyline, 4 soldiers being payed to collect someone from Afgan and bring him back. They have a little back story, although no emotion is there for the characters. Suddenly, they arrive in Afghan and it takes a little while to realise it's not a flashback, as there have already been several by this point.2nd half, I quickly lost interest and the storyline becomes a mess.5/10 for this film. You get what you pay for.If low budget supernatural/action films is your thing, you will enjoy this film. Give it a watch on a Sunday when there is nothing on TV.

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.