Mandrake

The poster made it seem cool, but it's a trap; it's anything but cool

Pretty low budget DTV horror flick. Should be terrible right? Surprisingly it's not all that bad. Max Martini manages to make the most of what could've been an outright terrible film. Even Benito Martinez, of The Shield fame, makes his generic villain character bad enough (in a good way) you want him to die horribly. Not a bad effort considering what these kinds of films usually end up as.

Not great, but not too bad, overall. One thing that bothers me: one guy has a micro-Galil (which is pretty awesome) and the other soldiers/mercenaries have SMGs, but one guy has what looks like a bolt action Enfield. If it was me, and I seen everyone else grab a machine gun and several magazines at 30 plus rounds per, I would seriously reconsider my decision to use a bolt action rifle that has an internal magazine that holds 10 rounds and is reloaded with 5 round stripper clips. Just sayin.

A fairly enjoyable adventure romp, with a few twists towards the end, reminded me in many ways of the videogame Uncharted.