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Hidden strike my just watched movie is one of the movie I would love to watch and watch again. The movie is an action adventure movie as directed and edited by Scott Waugh and written by Arash Amel. When I first saw the characters in the movie, I was just longing to see it, character like Jackie Chan(Luo), John Cena( chris) and other characters really played their roles and part to making the movie a must watch for someone like me.
This hidden strike movie started on a rescue mission by captain Luo. The captain, Luo was brought in to rescue the civilian workers of a refinery owned by a Chinese company in Iraq. The unicorp refinery was a Chinese refinery that's situated in Iraq, but the refinery after several years of it existence on the Iraqi soil was under immense attack by mercenaries under the leadership of owen paddock. Owen, though have his reasons was hellbent on attacking and taking the oil from the refinery due to what he believes that the refinery and it handlers have taking what seems to be their right and heritage from them, he said in one of his conversation that his people were being killed and their land taking from them by the handlers of the refinery, but immediately he said this, the prof, chang replied him by saying they paid to own the refinery.
Back to the rescue mission, when captain Luo Feng came in to rescue the 498 civilian workers including children at the refinery, the plan was to ply one of the deadliest high way on earth which is the highway of death with eleven buses on ground to evacuate these workers to the green zone for safety. As they were preparing for the journey, someone made a x spray sign on the bus eight. So, as they embarked on the journey, they encountered so many obstacles that were not natural but man made on their way. At first, they have to crush all the barricades on the road to drive through their way from a scary scene of multiple car crash and an isolated space. Also, while still on the journey, both captain Luo, who is the leader of rescue guard had a discussion with his daughter Mei who accused him of not being a good father, the lady accused him of not standing by her mother when she was in the sick bed and that she abandoned them, but the Captain narrated his own part of the story, telling his daughter how he was on a mission to rescue and protect his country and his country men, but the daughter would not agree with her, it was while they were on this journey that they encountered a sandstorm that made them to lose communication with the other buses and later led to the attack of two buses through which 5 people were held hostages by the Owen men, led by one Knox and others including Chris. Before then, Chris who happened to live in a community with his brother and other people including children was in need of money to provide and make water available in the village. So, for this and to raise the money, he also joined forces with the Owen men to abduct the 5 Chinese workers of the refinery.
So, it was known to Luo Feng that members of his team which included professor chang and his son have been abducted, he called for the two chopper to come around, so as for them to go after the abductors of their fellow nationals and rescue them. it's when he was to embark on this mission that he asked his daughter Mei to follow him with the promised to protect her while on the mission, so, the chopper came and they went after the mercenaries that took their people hostage.It's while they were on this mission they realized that the sandstorm was an artificial one orchestrated by the use of jet engine in the desert.
Also, there's another scene of Chris and Owen being engaged in a heated argument as to the latter fulfilling his own part of the deal, but he said, he was working towards the recovery of the refinery from the Chinese firm. So, when Chris heard this, he was angry and he left the scene in anger, but immediately he left, Owen killed Chris brother for not being able to convince his brother and other member of his mercenaries, but as Chris left, Luo and his men in the chopper got to notice him and Chris was trailed to the village where he lives.
Chris was being trialed right from the desert to the village, there at the village, both Chris and the Captain had an encounter where they fought, but later, some men who were believed to be Owen men came to attack them, they were being attacked and but were not captured, but not quite long, the assailants left and it was this that led to both men coming together, they both introduced and share their stories together, it's in their discussion that Chris share the story of how his dad was killed and how he worked for a dead Chinese company , also, Feng also share his own story and how he will never give up when it comes to war, but can give up on family matters, they both with Mei had a session with the children and afterwards they were being attacked by the Owen men who came to collect the bag that has the passcode and the key to the refinery. This happened after, the prof has been threatened to be killed by Owen who had earlier killed one of the hostages and even threatened to kill the prof's son. So, as a result of this, the prof was at first reluctant to release the details, but it was later the son told Owen where he can get the details which was in the bag. So, this was what led Owen men to the village, they went there to get the bag and when they got there and their footstep was heard by both Chris and Feng, both asked the children to be moved to the classroom and they both engaged them in a free for all, but when Chris realized that, the ensued battle would affect his people and the villagers he have and handover what they came looking for to them. Both Chris and Feng Luo fought alongside using the sign language, also in one of the scenes, Mei asked his father if Chris can be trusted, and the.father said Yes and this was because of his status in the community.
So, after Owen men had left for the refinery with the bag that has all the details and having got to know that they had everything needed to unlock the refinery, both Chris and Feng went after them with a truck with Mei being left behind to look after the children. Both men left in a truck and when they got to the refinery, they were able to crush the barricades, killed Owen men and rescued the prof and his son who had opened the refinery and loaded tankers to be sold out by Owen. It was when Owen and his the truck with those left in his team had left that Chris came out to chase after them, but he couldn't, but no quite long, Mei came with sussie, a truck that belongs to Chris to check on them, immediately Chris saw the car, he was like what was the car doing here? And afterwards he entered the car and went after Chris, and it's during the adventure that Mei crashed the car, but thank Feng that was left behind came to the scene with the truck and both Mei and Chris entered and as soon they both entered, Chris was unable the fasten the seat belt, but they all moved on and crash the truck into the back side of truck which later caught fire and the resulting effect affected other truck and this is how Owen plan was aborted, so, afterwards, the three of Chris, Feng and Mei went after Owen and he was killed and both the father and the daughter were reconciled from the past after they both escaped from the resulting accident, looking for Chris, whom they thought was dead, but it's later they ddiscovered he was alive when. He came up from the valley and held onto the feet of Fend, thank God he was been rescued by Feng men and at the end their mission was accomplished and another mission was on the table for Feng who with his recent relationship with Chris asked him to join him on the mission.
The movie was an interesting one, but even with that, it has some lapses which should have been worked on. But overall, I will rate it 7/10
Verdict for:
*The movie hidden strike talks more about one allegiance or loyalty to one's country as can be seen in captain Feng who was determined to rescue his fellow national from the mercenaries that were attacking the refinery, also, we can see how the prof was reluctant to release the passcode detail even at the point of death.
- Another verdict for in the movie is the love for children as being depicted by Chris in his love for children and his people in the neighborhood. We can see how he sacrificed the passcode bag for his people to be saved from being killed by Owen men.
*Also, his philanthropic gesture towards his people cannot be overemphasized. Though this led him to looking for money to provide water for his people by joining in the abduction if the Chinese nationals, but that would not take his good and kind deeds from him.
*Living a sacrificial life by both Chris and Feng in the rescue mission is commendable.
*Friendship was another thing that came up in the movie, though both Feng and Chris, but they ended up to be friends
*Reconciliation is another thing that spiced up the movie as can be seen between both men and even Feng and his daughter that later reconciled at the end of the movie.
*Love which supersedes all things also show forth in the movie. - The use of technology was top notch in the movie
*Multi-lingualism is one of the aspect of the movie I love so much as we can see in captain Feng and Chris who can speak many languages.
Verdict against:
*There were cases of murder from different scenes in the movie.
- we were told that attacks were lunch on the refinery, but the scenes were not seen in the movie.
*Wickedness was on high in the movie as depicted by Chris, when he killed some of the abductors for the passcode, also, his attitude towards getting or hijacking the refinery with multiple attacks is an act of wickedness.
*The attitude of the professor when she allowed Chris to kill one of the abductors after being asked for the passcode to open the refinery was an act of selfishness and this can be seen as an act of selfishness because when she was threatened that his son would be killed for the passcode, she gave in.
*Family irresponsibility can also be seen in the movie, this was portrayed when Feng daughter accused him of neglecting her mother and her while the former was on the sick bed and her eventual death, though he gave his reasons for defending the country, but maybe he would have done better than he did.
So, overall, the movie is an interesting which talks about one loyalty and love for his or her country, it's a must watch movie which has different characters that performed their roles up to the best of their ability. Though there's short comings, but I would like to rate it 7/10.
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