Land of Bad is a crisp military actioner. With a solid cast that includes two Hemsworth brothers, Liam and Luke, Russell Crowe and Milo Ventimiglia, the film takes us on a high-tension, tightly-crafted mission that sees a Delta Force team, and it’s accompanying drone (and operator) on the run after things go pear-shaped.

The Delta group is in the Philipines, covering the team via drone from Las Vegas, Captain Grimm (Crowe) and his camera operator, Branson (Chika Okogwe) have to help Kinney (Liam Hemsworth) get back to the LZ after the rest of the Delta Force unit are taken out.

As the situation escalates, Grimm works on keeping Kinney alive, and connected. They bond over the fact that they are both from Ohio, and Grimm keeps Kinney focused on staying alive. But, of course, it’s not going to be that easy.

Reminiscent of Behind Enemy Lines from 2001, it looks at the nature of war, and the fact that no matter how much tech is added to it, it’s still barbaric by it’s very nature. It also comments on the bonds of brotherhood that are forged under those same circumstances.

Eubank delivers a slick looking film filled with details and great looking sequences. The camera is always in motion, and amps the tension constantly as Kinney fights to get out of the bush with only the assistance of Grimm “Reaper” to help him.

Or are there more survivors that could change the parameters of the mission?

And that will just mean that things are going to get a whole lot worse for Kinney before they get better. Things are escalating in Vegas as well as Grimm demands to stay in the chair but is relieved, just as things escalate.

Things are going to come to a violent head, and Kinney is definitely in the Land of Bad.

I enjoyed this on. It was a fairly basic actioner, but the performances are solid, and the action beats are well choreographed and shot. It ends up being a fairly entertaining film, even if things progress exactly as you know they will in the last half of the film.

It’s a little predictable, but it’s well-made and consequently very enjoyable.