Ghost Soldier

Give me a movie with good gadgets and I'm halfway sold. Ghost Soldier has them, and the weapons are the kind of toys you want to see used on screen rather than explained to you.

Bringing DARPA into it was a smart move. It grounds the whole thing. And the reason the plot gets moving actually holds up, which is more than I can say for a lot of movies built around one guy with a skill set. I bought it.

He's fine here, but fine is the ceiling.

The scenery is gorgeous. That alone made the theater worth it; this is a big screen movie and the big screen made it better.

The Hernandez family was solid. Good stuff there.

Now the part that bugged me. I'm a Jim Caviezel guy. Have been for a long time. He's fine here, but fine is the ceiling. He plays the whole thing about a step warmer than a stone. Very cold, very little emotion, and when the movie wants you to feel something off his face, there's just not much coming back at you. The acting across the board could have been better.

But I had fun. Took the kids, nobody was checking a phone, and I was still thinking about pieces of it the next day, which doesn't happen with every action movie I sit through.

Would I watch it again? Maybe. Would I tell everybody I know to go? No. This is a specific-people movie. If you like hardware, big landscapes, and a one-man-war setup that actually makes sense, you'll get your money's worth. If you need an actor to show you something, look elsewhere.