Special Forces (2011) ( Forces spéciales )

Special Forces (2011) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Forces spéciales
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Stéphane Rybojad

Written By:
Michael Cooper
Stéphane Rybojad

Actors:
Diane Kruger ..... Elsa
Djimon Hounsou ..... Kovax
Benoît Magimel ..... Tic-Tac
Denis Menochet ..... Lucas
Raphaël Personnaz ..... Elias
Alain Figlarz ..... Victor
Alain Alivon ..... Marius
Mehdi Nebbou ..... Amen
Raz Degan ..... Ahmed Zaief
Tchéky Karyo ..... Amiral Guezennec
Morjana Alaoui ..... Maina
Didier Flamand ..... Jacques Beauregard
Jacques Gallo ..... Le Pacha
Bernard Allouf ..... Le President de La Republique
Marine Faure ..... La Premier Ministre

Synopsis:

In Afghanistan war correspondent Elsa Casanova (Diane Kruger Inglorious Basterds) is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit led by SGT Kovax (Djimon Hounsou Blood Diamond) is dispatched to free her. When they storm the compound where Elsa is being held captive and rescue her, the Special Forces team must get her to safety. However when their initial extraction is compromised the soldiers and Elsa are forced to flee from the relentless pursuit of hostile Taliban soldiers. With no choice but to take a path through the mountains they must battle the elements as well as their deadly pursuers to get Elsa and the team to safety.

German-born Kruger stars as French reporter Elsa (with a strangely Teuton accent when speaking English), who is kidnapped by the goons of a Taliban chief (Raz Degan). A special French military unit is quickly dispatched to Pakistan because France's image abroad is on the line ("It will not come to pass that the entire world will see the decapitation of a Frenchwoman live on TV," a politico helpfully underlines).

A Gallic elite commando is sent to Central Asia to free a blonde, blue-eyed journo from the clutches of the Taliban in "Special Forces," a film that's as elementary and generic as its title suggests. Fiction debut of TV documaker Stephane Rybojad wants to be a rousing action-adventure against a geopolitical backdrop, but a gaping hole where the mise-en-scene should be proves crippling from the outset. Star power of odd pair Diane Kruger and Djimon Hounsou couldn't compensate for a critical drubbing in France and will be of little help when it hits a single Blighty screen Nov. 18.

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