Renegades (2018)

Switch your brain off... if strike back was a movie then this would be pretty much how it looked..! I've definitely seen worse, but to hell with it... few beers on board and it's easy watching, just don't expect great things from it other than a cheese fest

"Can you imagine what that gold could do to help my people? Will you help me get it?"There are films you can compare with a richly filled five-course dinner. First they spoil you with a tasty opener. After which a well-filled middle piece is offered. And then as an enjoyment afterwards, you're offered a delicious dessert. Satisfied you'll leave the establishment and you'll remember this treat with great pleasure. Other films are like a cozy family picnic. It's relaxed and pleasant. No extensive preparations are necessary. And when you look back on it, you think of the cosiness and life values. "Renegades" is like the McDonald's. You are served very quickly. You're eating it as quickly as possible (it's fast food, remember). And before you know it you've already forgotten what you have eaten and hungry again.There's also something positive to say about this film. The short performance of J.K. Simmons, acting in the same way as when he scolded his students as a music teacher in "Whiplash", is magnificent. And the underwater footage in the second half of the film, looks beautiful. And finally, the Bosnian girl (in real life the Dutch actress Sylvia Hoeks) is a pleasure to watch. If I had to choose between her and a nice dish filled with cevapcici, I knew what I would take. Quite obvious that she can convince a group of American Navy Seals to dive for a Nazi treasure in a lake in Bosnia. Or was it the gold bar that did it?Although this film is of the same level as that of an average television film, it's entertaining enough full of action-packed scenes and with a feel-good ending. The fragment with the tank is pure enjoyment. It looked like a modern episode of "The A-Team" with MacGyver in it for some assistance. I'm sure nobody would even know this movie if they had left out the well-known actors. But at least it would have been a little less expensive and the turnover would have been more positive. If you have a package of popcorn laying around and a little time to kill, this film is definitely worth it. But just like with the MacDonald menu, the next day you can't even remember what it was about anyway.

Fake story, glorifing americans against Serbs (who even were not in Sarajevo), actors of Serbs are Croats???,.. French gold was sent to Germany, Germans were not stupid. Bad acting. Stoped waching at 10th minute. Not waste your time

Renegades is a badly written and mostly poorly acted action film about a special-ops team trying to retrieve hidden nazi gold from a war torn Bosnia on 1995. Apparently the nazis hid the gold in 1944 in a small town and the town was completely submerged in a man made lake. Fast forward fifty years and a special-ops team there on an unrelated mission finds out about the gold and decides to take it. Sounds interesting? Well it isn't. Overall who ever wrote this drivel couldn't do any research about the actual war in Bosnia. The first mission is ridiculous as the team is there to kidnap a Serb general responsible for war crimes...which in reality, no one at the time knew anything about. The mission is covert and yet involves driving a stolen tank through the streets and over a bridge and under water for a bit. The fact that the wanted general has a compound surrounded by a whole army is also irrelevant since they decided to leave a whole side unguarded. The flags used in the beginning also didn't even exist until 2006. Oh, and lets not forget the protagonists having drinks in a bar in Bosnia even though the west never actually had ground troops there during the war. This would be as if there was a war movie made about British Commandoes who were chasing Nazi war criminals who used the flags of West Germany in Austria in 1938 before the war started. Overall this was clearly written by someone who watched The Expendables, The A-Team, some war movies and mashed everything together creating a movie so disjointed and badly made it may cause heartburn to the viewers.