Film Review – Land of Bad

We’ve had films about drone pilots before, and “Land of Bad” is in no mood to debate the moral and political choices involved in the service. Co-writer/director William Eubank (“Underwater,” “Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin”) is in Michael Bay mode with the endeavor, which delves into a mission gone wrong, finding a surviving soldier depending on his drone support to help escape a deadly situation in a foreign land. It’s more of a B-movie than a thought-provoking thriller, but Eubank does try to keep the endeavor technical and emotional in some ways, retaining human qualities between explosions and gunfights. “Land of Bad” is suspenseful for its first half, as the screenplay creates a sense of personality and stakes before the helmer cranks up the explosions and villainous hostility, which eventually diminishes the feature’s unusual intimacy. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com