A Rambo-style gun battle ensues and the terrorists are, of course, no match. Alas, they are caught in the dead of night before they can sow destruction in U.S. Filipino because their dialogue is in Tagalog even though it appears they are living in shanties close to the Mexican-US border where a scientist is perfecting the undetectable bombs to be worn by a jihadist across the border. And just before the explosion, there’s one lone long-haired school security guard manning his post and stupidly looking alarmed at a suspicious-looking scar-faced foreigner driving the ice cream truck and luring the children in who then briskly walks away from the truck before it explodes.įinally, the story leads to a “barrio” of “Filipino” terrorists. In one of the first scenes, the American ambassador along with his son studying at the “international School” in Manila (filmed in Ceylon with Ceylonese children and smattering of white kids) along with dozens of young students excitedly surround a “sorbetes” truck before they are blown up into smithereens. They threw all their might into their mission to track and squash a band of Filipino jihadists under the command of a Chechnyan commando.įrom start to finish, the storyline seemed to weave its tale around the premise that the source of this potent jihadist movement against America emanated from the Philippines. They had everything from nuclear submarines to helicopters able to lift speedboats in un-maneuverable waterways to high-tech gear and super drones. Johnstad’s script had the Seals going from Asia to the Middle East and Mexico, tracking and preventing these terrorists from wreaking havoc on Americans on American soil, employing ultra sophisticated weapons and immense logistics and backed by the most powerful military in the world.

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