gridoon2024 Review of Enemy

Enemy (I) (1990)

Should have been called "The Vietnamese Can't Shoot Straight"

[4/10 · 14 October 2009]

I had three main problems with "Enemy": a) neither of the two main characters (and they are they only characters that matter) are worth rooting for, b) it is padded with footage of those two characters walking through the jungle, c) the Vietnamese soldiers can't shoot worth a damn, even when the "heroes" are standing right in front of them. To be fair, the first 15 minutes or so are pretty good, but the rest of the movie basically consists of long periods of walking interrupted by a few ineffective action sequences. Looking at Tia Carrere's flawless, astonishingly beautiful face is the main pleasure here. Oh, the film also has the slowest-motion-death-scene ever, it literally takes the guy a whole minute to fall down. *1/2 out of 4.