FLESH WOUNDS is a hilariously blatant rip-off TV movie which openly copies PREDATOR from beginning to end. A bunch of soldiers in the jungle find themselves stalked and slashed by an invisible alien, while rugged Kevin Sorbo must figure out a way to combat a foe which has the power to take his team out one at a time. Of course, this is inferior to PREDATOR in every respect, although there's a stronger female role here than in the original. The special effects are cheesy, none more so than the slapdash CGI gore effects, and watching Bokeem Woodbine doing his best Carl Weathers impression is quite funny. When the alien finally appears, he looks just like one of the guys from UNIVERSAL SOLDIER. Inevitably, this really isn't worth your time.

As far as incredibly lame and shameless cheapo rip-offs of the almighty "Predator" are concerned, this astonishingly appalling dud rates as one of the all-time most blatant and laughable. A visibly worn-out Kevin Sorbo gives up the ghost early on and phones it in as the rugged leader of a ragtag group of special ops soldiers, Bookeem Woodbine goes way above and beyond the call of basic B-movie duty with his usual reliable solid pro work as the happy-go-lucky Jackie (yep, once again poor Bokeem buys ranch; has this guy ever done a film in which he's still alive at the end?), and petite blonde Heather Marie Marsden sure looks cute, but fails to convince as the scrappy'n'spunky token hot chick. Worse yet, Don Garcia's flat (non)direction fails to generate any much-needed tension or excitement, the Predator clone is some beefy guy covered in clunky metal stuff that appears to have been scrounged up from a local junkyard, the cheesy CGI and tacky gore are downright painful to behold, we've got clumsy use of slow motion, the members of Sorbo's crew are all a bunch of unlikable one-note macho meatheads, the jungle locations were apparently shot in somebody's backyard, the hopelessly derivative by-the-numbers script offers zero surprises, the redundant rattling score grates on the nerves something harsh, and the climactic fight between Sorbo and the cyborg super soldier is staged with all the finesse of an amateur back alley boxing match. The competent and energetic cinematography by Jim Lands makes this bilge look far better than it deserves to. A real stinker.

Kevin Sorbo (who couldn't look more bored) leads a team of commandos (take one look at them and you'll wonder just what Sorbo finds so valuable about them) into a black ops covert assignment to find two scientists and a few military men running into "terrorists" (they aren't especially frightening) and a cyborg human killing machine. Ripping off direct scenes from The Jason Bourne Trilogy, Predator, and Universal Soldier, "Flesh Wounds" is a cheap, unsatisfactory, wretched sci-fi action movie with heroes that look handpicked from a suburban neighborhood while they were playing videogames. "Wanna be in my movie?" "Sure." Sorbo just cannot muster any inspiration and he is normally reliable even in pretty bad syfy channel stinkbombs. With television credentials (Hercules & Andromeda) that are positive for his career, "Flesh Wounds" does the poor guy no favors. Bokeem Woodbine does what he can with his "I don't give a rat's ass what you think of me, I'm my own man and will do whatever I damn well please" fearless soldier routine who is even given a hero's demise not shown on screen (unlike the others who are blown apart by Universal Soldier with his laser blaster) as a token to his "cool cred". The Universal Soldier, like Bourne, thought he was doing good for his country, turned into Universal Soldier, and moves around the Caribbean forest (it looks like most of the movie was shot in my backyard forest) mostly hidden in an invisibility cloak, looking at Sorbo's bunch through a particularly "hi-tech" (more like hi-tacky) lens aping Predator embarrassingly (there is even the scene where the soldiers start shooting blindly at the forest after one of their own is killed, and Universal Soldier "repairs malfunctions" which has him screaming out in agony; oh, brother). A female tags along, much to the males' bemusement (Sorbo is especially unfriendly towards her), as she represents government bureaucracy, but eventually holds her own when the time comes. Even the finale when Sorbo and Universal Soldier square off, it ends with the hero having his way with the cyborg human a bit too easily. Just skip this and watch Predator, Universal Soldier, and the Bourne movies instead.

"If these guys can't fix it, Hell no one can." After a group of scientists goes missing, the army hires an elite covert team led by Tyler (Sorbo) to go and investigate and rescue them. When they get to the site they discover something they never could have imagined. There really is not much to say about this movie. The best way to explain it is that this is a Scy/Fy channel version of "Predators". It is only missing the effects, action, cool bad guys and acting, other then that it is a lot like "Predators". If you are a HUGE Predator or Sci-fi fan you would probably like this, otherwise go ahead and avoid this and anyone who wants you to watch it. I give it a D.Would I watch again? - No way! I will not be getting this for my store.*Also try - Predators