{"id":18729,"date":"2016-01-22T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T01:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=18729"},"modified":"2016-05-08T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T00:18:10","slug":"task-force-2001-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/22\/task-force-2001-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Task Force 2001 (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s not many movies with the alternate title of \u201cSpy High\u201d that doesn\u2019t feature much spying. Of course, if you\u2019re interested in a spy movie where the trio of heroes do nothing but sit at a computer typing over and over, then you\u2019re going to love what \u201cTask Force 2001\u201d has in store for you. And just for your information, the trio of aspiring spies has a sidekick dog named Rocky that does most of the work. Because of Ethan Hunt really lacked a sidekick with fur and a tail. Of course! \u201cTask Force 2001\u201d has a great concept and some interesting ideas, but really none of the budget to commit to unfolding the intended action scenes.<\/p>\n

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So we\u2019re reduced to watching what look like a glorified television pilot, and a lot of alleged action sequences that are mostly set in locales that are easy to film in and around. At one point our hero Andrew is training with his friends in a beach. This involves switching a bag back and forth trying to evade local authorities anxiously trying to grab it from them, as it contains crucial information. And during the climactic face off, we mostly watch our heroes going undercover in an office building and outrunning a lot of guards that are mysteriously unarmed despite being henchmen for a ruthless corporate executive. His plan is to make a video game that also happens to double as a program for a weapon of mass destruction\u2014or something.<\/p>\n

Either way, he holds hostage a really gorgeous game programmer who is trying to stall the production of the game and begs for the help of Andrew and his pair of friends that begin training beside him to become spies for a top secret organization. A lot of the movie seems to be set up for a potential TV series or series of movies, thus a lot of sub-plots are set up and never quite resolved. There\u2019s a plot about a video game company producing weapons, there\u2019s the emphasis on Andrew and programmer, and there\u2019s a suggested romance between Andrew and his adorable best friend Catherine.<\/p>\n

The latter of whom drops so many obvious romantic hints to Andrew, their dynamic is practically a modern take on Alice the Maid and clueless Sam the Butcher. Most of \u201cTask Force 2001\u201d is painfully boring when it\u2019s not being silly. There\u2019s often way too much emphasis on what tricks dog Rocky can do that he comes off much more competent than his master. The villain is also one of the least imposing movie villains of all time, spending most of his screen time scowling and growling at his victims, and doing little else. I\u2019m glad that we never got a series of sequels or TV show, because even with the budget \u201cTask Force 2001\/Spy High\u201d just doesn\u2019t have anything remarkable to bring with it. The heroes are boring, the plot makes no sense, and I\u2019m still not sure what respectable spy has a dog sidekick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not many movies with the alternate title of \u201cSpy High\u201d that doesn\u2019t feature much spying. Of course, if you\u2019re interested in a spy movie where the trio of heroes do nothing but sit at a computer typing over and over, then you\u2019re going to love what \u201cTask Force 2001\u201d has in store for you. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[58,71,225,703,906,975,1020],"class_list":["post-18729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-moon-friday","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-coming-of-age","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction","tag-spy","tag-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20594,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729\/revisions\/20594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}