Toy Soldiers

A bang-on average Die Hard clone. While having a group of teenage boys be the protagonists is novel, only Sean Astin's character is allowed to have anything resembling a personality. Character actors are wasted in roles that make no attempt to use their unique talents. There are set-ups that never pay off, plot holes that a child could point out, and list of contrivances that could stretch to the outer limits of the galaxy. But it's also not trying to reach above its head; Toy Soldiers knows its cheesy and dumb, a movie made to fill time for an independent TV station's Saturday afternoon schedule and found by bored people with no plans. Toy Soldiers exists to distract, not to entertain, to be consumed and forgotten. And in that humble objective, it does just enough to be considered a success.