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Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Kevin Sorbo (who couldn't look more bored) leads a team of commandos (take one look at them and you'll wonder just what Sorbo finds so valuable about them) into a black ops covert assignment to find two scientists and a few military men running into "terrorists" (they aren't especially frightening) and a cyborg human killing machine. Ripping off direct scenes from The Jason Bourne Trilogy, Predator, and Universal Soldier, "Flesh Wounds" is a cheap, unsatisfactory, wretched sci-fi action movie with heroes that look handpicked from a suburban neighborhood while they were playing videogames. "Wanna be in my movie?" "Sure." Sorbo just cannot muster any inspiration and he is normally reliable even in pretty bad syfy channel stinkbombs. With television credentials (Hercules & Andromeda) that are positive for his career, "Flesh Wounds" does the poor guy no favors. Bokeem Woodbine does what he can with his "I don't give a rat's ass what you think of me, I'm my own man and will do whatever I damn well please" fearless soldier routine who is even given a hero's demise not shown on screen (unlike the others who are blown apart by Universal Soldier with his laser blaster) as a token to his "cool cred". The Universal Soldier, like Bourne, thought he was doing good for his country, turned into Universal Soldier, and moves around the Caribbean forest (it looks like most of the movie was shot in my backyard forest) mostly hidden in an invisibility cloak, looking at Sorbo's bunch through a particularly "hi-tech" (more like hi-tacky) lens aping Predator embarrassingly (there is even the scene where the soldiers start shooting blindly at the forest after one of their own is killed, and Universal Soldier "repairs malfunctions" which has him screaming out in agony; oh, brother). A female tags along, much to the males' bemusement (Sorbo is especially unfriendly towards her), as she represents government bureaucracy, but eventually holds her own when the time comes. Even the finale when Sorbo and Universal Soldier square off, it ends with the hero having his way with the cyborg human a bit too easily. Just skip this and watch Predator, Universal Soldier, and the Bourne movies instead.

Some people should have some kind of legal restraint that forbids them to make a movie or even thinking about touching a camera! Dan Garcia should be one of them, although the lighting is good (it usually is when you shoot outdoors) and some shots and scenery are pretty cool, but the movie itself is not even worth to be called "movie". As one reviewer earlier said you could watch it if you were bored to death nothing short of watching the paint on your wall, I would even strongly disagree with him and say that it would be even better to stick to the paint watching, twice or thrice if needed just as long as you can so you don't have to suffer the horrors (in film making) that this "movie" has to "offer". If you are a student of cinematography, just have a quick look at it as an excellent example of "How NOT to do it!". A complete waste of time and resources and an insult to the audience. Dan Garcia: forget about movie making, please find another job! Stay away (farthest as possible) from directing, script writing and whatever creative movie related jobs may exist. I'm sure you have talents to make yourself useful somewhere, but it sure is not in the movie making business...

** Spoilers **It starts in an interesting manner, a bunch of black ops going on a mission to find terrorists. Soon you understand that this is just a lame Predator remake, a bad one. More like Predator combined with Universal Soldier.Let's ignore the plot for a moment and focus on the bad acting. Everything about this movie feels wrong, the way they talk to each other, the way they're dressed and how they handle their weapons. Each time I saw Sorbo handling a weapon i wanted to just turn off the movie and rate it 1. If you're playing a soldier, why not go and learn something about it. The scene where he loads his weapons before the final "battle" would make any soldier laugh at him. And after all that fancy reloading he realises after two shots that he's out of bullets! What the hell?Another thing that I hated was at the end when Sorbo shoots the "Predator" (aim for the head, DUH!) and gets no resistance. What kind of battle is that? Is that their super soldier that just stands there and does nothing? And the best part, after he defeats the cyborg, he just falls to the ground like he was badly hurt and gets carried away. At which point did he get hurt?In conclusion, this movie is not worth watching. If you got nothing better to do, still not worth the time. I've seen worse movies than that, but this one is still awful.

This isn't exactly a master-piece. But it's not quite the opposite, either. There is some kind of story. There are some kind of characters, among them and foremost a world-weary, disillusioned black-ops guy, portrayed by Kevin Sorbo in a most convincing manner. There even is some kind of acting by more people than just Kevin Sorbo.None of this is really very much fleshed-out, everything is a tad disjointed and quite... trashy in terms of production value. Which I suspect pretty much hits the nail: it's yet another remake of Predator, suffering from all of the original's problems as well as lack of money.But there sure are worse things out there to kill 82 minutes with.