Elite Force – B.R.I. (2025) Review

Elite Force – B.R.I. (2025) Review

Co-written by and starring Danny Darren (OUT OF VENGEANCE, BADNAAM, 16/03) and renowned stunt-woman and actress Jadey Duffield (GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, 16/03, CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON), this high octane feature from director and co-writer Roman Elpidio (LEGOL) has earned awards galore including Best UK Feature at the 2023 MiraBan UK Film Awards and now it’s anticipated to explode when it drops on digital on 20 January 2025, courtesy of Reel 2 Reel Films.

Hellbent on ridding the world of corruption, mad scientist Dr Marco (Crispian Belfrage – 6 BULLETS TO HELL, MORGAM, OBI-WAN KENOBI) kidnaps ex-soldiers from around the world, injecting them with B.R.I. (Body Recovery Immunisation), a concoction set to systematically readjust their DNA over time turning them into lethal weapons of mass destruction. With their bodies on fire as their cells regenerate, the soldiers are enlisted into a powerful fighting force with the goal of saving the world from an evil arm of destruction and control…

ELITE FORCE – B.R.I. kicks off almost dialogue-free and for what dialogue there is there’s no subtitles to assist with our understanding of the foreign dialogue spoken. This then remains the case throughout the film. We see persons located across four different countries who are then kidnapped and packed into titchy boxes so that a mad scientist can then utilise them for his own purposes.

Throughout the sound quality is inconsistent, I was forever adjusting the volume as some dialogue played at the appropriate volume, whereas other dialogue not so much. I ended up switching on the English subtitles so that I wasn’t spending the whole ninety minutes fiddling with the sound.

Aside from these slight issues the film offers an abundance of macho posturing however none of it convinces. The same could be said for the team’s work-out sequences and this is the big deal-breaker for this kind of flick, the action/fight sequences too. I have no issue with lower-budget flicks, in fact I have always embraced them, and overall, I prefer them to the generic offerings that make up bigger budget fare. On this occasion I’m sorry to say that what is aimed for remains out of reach. You can see that everyone is giving it their all, but the result is sadly a misfire.

On digital 20 January from Reel 2 Reel Films