Monster Crap Inductee: Beyond The Call Of Duty (aka Beyond The Call To Duty) (2016)

Monster Crap Inductee: Beyond The Call Of Duty (aka Beyond The Call To Duty)

This Movie Deserves A Court Martial

2016

This may shock folks, but I have NOT seen every movie with a monster. In fact, I may have only seen 65% and getting smaller every year with new films. But like this film, most of you haven’t seen this film either so it is forgivable. But I know one person who has seen this film and that person is Groose, who gave me the request to induct this film.

We also have a Monster Crap alumni here with Michael O’Hear

Who Was Professor Hoffman In Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast,

Brenda Rickert…

Who Was Bianca In Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast,

Daniel James (who played someone named Jason in Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast), and Lori Cholewka (who played a Town Hall Extra in…you guessed it, Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast)

Now with such a no name cast (except for those in Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast), it is time to see if this film I have never heard of has a reason to be completely forgotten or is something someone that may be worth seeing for how bad it is.

And before anyone asks, this movie has NOTHING to do with the popular video game series or any franchise whatsoever.

We begin in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

If Your First Name Is Franz Or Your Last Name Ferdinand, Watch Yourself

We then see two Americans being held hostage by terrorists and obviously cocaine is on the table.

Probably Not Wise To Film Your Drugs In A Movie

Anyway, the lead terrorist is this guy.

A hostage is brought in and they demand he give them the code for the missiles.

The one guy in a suit is also a hostage and is a translator as well who tells the other hostage to give them the launch codes and the restrained hostage says that he should tell the terrorists to go fuck themselves. He gets pistol whipped as we then go outside and we see terrorist guards just smoking.

Really Convincing Terrorists, Filmmakers

They get taken out by two guys of Alpha Squad in Blonde Guy and Headband Guy.

We then get a girl fight between two women and while we know which one is the hero by what they are wearing, the other woman doesn’t look that convincing of a terrorist.

And when I say fight…..it’s this kind of horrible fighting.

The translator tries to tell the other hostage that if he doesn’t give them the code, they will be killed. The restrained hostage says if he gives them the codes, millions will die and the terrorists will kill them anyway. The translator tries to say he has a family, but the hostage with the codes doesn’t care. Another terrorist is getting sick and doesn’t know what is wrong with him.

So more snooping around by the good guys who we don’t know who they are yet. Another terrorist is killed and the two ladies are still fighting, but at least we find out the lady hero is named Cassandra “Cassie” Stinson.

That Is The Blonde Lady Of Course

Blonde Guy sees the targets and asks for permission to engage, but the situation has apparently changed because there are two hostages and they are told to abort the mission. Blonde guy says “fuck your orders” and they prepare to engage. Meanwhile, we see lead terrorist get pissed and he decides to kill the translator.

Another terrorist asks who is going to translate now and the lead terrorist threatens to kill him. The good guys finally engage and they have to lay down their guns after the terrorists threaten the hostage’s death. We then find out the one terrorist who asked why kill the translator was a spy and that spy kills the lead terrorist.

As the good guys and hostage kill the remaining terrorists, Cassie finally kills that terrorist girl.

Finally….

Blonde guy said he always knew there was a mole in the operation and then when asked how did he know that, he fesses up and said he didn’t know. They all leave out the door and Cassie joins them. Blonde guy says he knows some Serbian to the mole, tries to speak it, and the mole says he got it wrong. They sneak around, but a terrorist sniper has eyes on them.

Sniper, No Sniping!!!

But good news for them is they have their own sniper who takes him out.

Named Ronald Gallo

And then we see coughing terrorists who looks like he has seen better days.

If You Are Wondering Where This Is Going, It’s Going Absolutely Nowhere As He Is Never Seen Again.

Then we finally get the title card.

As the credits role, we go to a laboratory. And for some reason we see the opening title card again.

Just In Case You Didn’t See It The First Time

We then finally meet Dr. Nicholas Bergman (who I’m calling Dr. Nick) and his assistant Dr. William Fenenko (who I’m calling Dr. Will)

Dr. Nick here says his father would have figured out this formula if had more time to live. Dr. Will says that Dr. Nick should use his contacts, who will help him. Dr. Nick doesn’t want to use the contacts so Dr. Will tells him to use him, which Dr. Nick doesn’t want to do either. Dr. Will says Dr. Nick has used the formula on himself so he should use it on him. Dr. Nick’s response is “Then so be it”.

We then go to a meeting of Human Interest Parties and their goal is to make an investment that will change the world.

A gentleman named I don’t know says that he came across Dr. Nick’s work and thinks they should invest in him.

Some on this board are against this, finding Dr. Nick’s work rather out of the realm of reality and dangerous since it deals with the cure to everything including aging. After arguments, they agree to fund it, but I don’t know cant come with them to see the research. We then see a video diary of Dr. Nick who says he has grown impatient as he has used all of his resources. But he has the investors coming and if everything goes well, he will have enough funds to continue his father’s research. And if things go bad, god help them all.

We then gets some generic country music as the heroes from the mission in Bosnia come home. The montage takes several minutes for no real reason. We finally see locker room talk as Ronald is upset about the mission, but Blonde Guy thinks it went fine. Ronald is upset that the translator got killed and blames it on info Blonde Guy got as well as Blonde Guy going against what HQ said, which was back down (even though the translator got killed before any of that happened). We find out that Blonde Guy’s name is Keith Watzel and Headband Guy is named Scott Hoover.

We also find out that their boss’ name is Roy Weiss who both Keith and Scott hate. And we meet Roy soon as they shown their disgust for him.

I Get A Sense That People Are Being Mean To Me Behind My Back And That Makes Me Sad

He gets told that his squad has returned from a mission and then we go to the dining area of this base as Scott can’t wait to get his hands on some real food. After some shit talking and Scott needing to take a dump…

We Seriously Get This As We Get A Joke About There Being No Toilet Paper

We then see them all working out at the gym. One of the soldiers gives Keith shit about the fuck up (that wasn’t really a fuck up) and says he might take his spot as leader of Alpha Squad. Keith keeps trying to hit on Cassie and Cassie is not that into him. Cassie and Ronald talk about family stuff and them eventually being able to take time off. Sure hope something doesn’t happen to screw that all up.

After taking a shower, Roy tells Ronald that he needs to get dressed and come with him as there is a special briefing going on. Ronald isn’t happy as he wants to see his son. Cassie goes for a swim as Keith and Scott are also told by another guy that they need to be at a briefing. After Cassie gets out of the pool, she is also told about the briefing she needs to attend.

They all get to the briefing where they are told by Rick Dallas that promised time off is gone and in a few days,  they will be on another mission of great importance.

Trust Me, He's Awake Despite The Picture I Got.

Keith is upset, but is told by Roy to stand down. After the meeting, Keith and Scott are wondering what they are hiding and Roy just says they are thinking way too much about this. He says they should just follow orders and Keith says in a snarky way that Roy is like a good little captain in following orders without asking questions. Roy tells them all to take a few days off to unwind before this mission. Keith and Scott want to go out and drink while Ronald thinks that this will obviously cause Keith to start a fight, yet Cassie seems fine with drinking to the shock of Keith.

So we go to the bar with a band playing called Bar King.

Scott is already drunk when Keith arrives in the tightest shirt he can find. Cassie ends up being the person to take Scott home because he is getting sick. Keith then decides that he is going to start getting drunk. He tries to ask for the female bartender’s number and she turns him down. Ronald is kind of depressed as he saw a picture of his wife and kid with his kid having a toy soldier as he doesn’t want his kid having the same life he has. He still wants to spend more time with his family. Keith says he has not found the right woman yet to be with for the rest of his life and Ronald jokes that Keith is kind of an asshole.

Keith then says that since he is the best looking guy in this bar, Ronald should pick a girl and Keith will try to take her home. Ronald tries to pick some cute girls, but they aren’t Keith’s type. So Keith decides that he is going to pick the girl to hit on and he chooses this girl.

Ronald tries to warn him that she is obviously on a date with a guy and Keith doesn’t care. He tries to talk to the girl and her boyfriend is already pissed at him.

Keith of course is an asshole and doesn’t care that she is already on a date with another guy so a fight starts.

The bartender yells that she is calling the cops.

Meanwhile, Cassie takes Scott to her place to sleep for the night. We then go to the next day and somewhere else where a couple is walking down a river path.

They are also in an argument as the guy is taking the girl on this trek, yet he doesn’t know how to fish and has only one Rice Krispie Treat to eat. They walk into a property and there seem to be dead people here.

The guy tells the lady to call the cops as he goes to check on the body. Sadly there is no service and the body is actually a zombie who attacks the guy.

The guy is about to hit him with a rock, but the zombie is shot by Dr. Nick.

Hi, Everybody

Dr. Nick then decides to break the guy’s neck.

Dr. Nick’s Chiropractic Skills Need Some Work

And shoots the lady as she tries to run away.

No Witnesses…

And now we go to a place with files with these two guys.

Who Are Seriously Credited As Archive Guard And The Spy

The spy tries to take a file (saying he works in this sector for the president) and the archive guard says he is not allowed to take that file. The archive guard draws a gun on him and the spy puts the file down. The archive guard then puts his gun away and tries to lead the spy out so the spy draws his own gun and shoots the archive guard.

Well, I Am A Spy After All

Roy and Ronald show up and the spy and his men have to deal with them.

Roy And Ronald Make Quick Work Of The Men And Capture The Spy

Roy and Ronald then go to Rick’s office and ask him about the file that the spy and his men were trying to steal. Roy says that the files pertain to the mission and why were they trying to steal it. He sends them away after an argument, not divulging any new info. Ronald still wants to know what is in those files, but Roy wants to play it by the book and thinks Rick will tell his father (who is I guess the unit’s boss) and the father will tell them so no need to cause an issue. We then see Keith get bailed out of prison.

The woman who brings him here is Kate and Keith tries to hit on her too.

She Too Is Annoyed By Keith

She tells Roy to never call him again for a favor and to keep his dog (Keith) on a leash. She pie faces Keith after he wants her number and leaves. And then we get Monster Crap worthy line delivery as we get sad music and Keith doesn’t want to hear any of Roy’s talking down too. Roy wants to get back to the base and Keith says he doesn’t give a damn about Roy’s rank. Keith complains that he does all the heavy lifting and Roy gets a promotion. Keith spits on Roy’s shoe and says that he knows that promotion belonged to him and the only reason Roy got it was because of his father. Roy punches him and tells Keith to find his own way back. Keith is upset that Roy hit him and has the nerve to just walk away. Ronald is here too and tries to play peacemaker, but when Roy tells Ronald to come with him, Keith makes fun of Ronald for being loyal to Roy like a dog. Keith just says that he is done with all this shit and leaves. I’m sorry I can’t show you the scene of even give quotes to it, but it is just beautiful.

Meanwhile we see Scott make a call to his father.

Played By Artimus Pyle, The Drummer For Lynyrd Skynyrd. Seriously!

They have a heart to heart moment over the phone. We also find out that Scott is declared dead and missed his own funeral. Scott asks how mom is and Mr. Hoover says that she has been better. Mr. Hoover tells Scott that he needs to come home and Scott says that he can’t. Scott says that for once in his life he has responsibilities and he can’t leave those behind just because his dad thinks he doesn’t belong in the military. He says he would rather die young than die as an old miserable man.

Considering This Is The Drummer For Lynyrd Skynyrd Who Survived A Freaking Plane Crash That Killed Members Of His Own Band And He Was The One Who Was Able To Lead Authorities To The Crash, Which Saved Some Lives As Well…..This Kind Of Is Insulting.

Meanwhile, Cassie decides to visit her grandmother who is in hospice care and the nurse who checks in on her, lets her in.

Cassie tells her grandmother that she missed her and there is no excuse as to why she hasn’t visited her in so long. She then says that her grandmother shouldn’t need to worry about her anymore as she is doing fine and found people who finally care about her like Keith, Roy, Ronald, and Scott. She tells her grandmother that she is going on another mission soon and she plans on this being her last mission with Alpha Squad. She says that if she comes back alive, then she will visit her again. The grandmother speaks and says she will come back alive, which gives Cassie a chuckle.

By The Way, The Old Lady Does Not Even Realize This Is Her Granddaughter And Thinks She Is Just Talking To A Random Nice Person. That Is Not Something That A Granddaughter Really Likes Hearing.

Cassie then meets up with Scott at a restaurant and reveals that her grandmother has Alzheimer’s Disease. We then go elsewhere where there be zombies roaming about. Dr. Nick does another video log about his experiments as one of his zombies is showing promise as parts of his body are starting to solidify into metal.

Also the zombie has memories and sees Dr. Nick as the enemy.

And This Is Our Zombie Known Only As Steel

Thankfully Not That Steel

Well, it is now mission time as the group gets armed and Keith has come back. Keith asks Ronald why he isn’t wearing a wedding ring since he is married and Ronald says he is wearing it, but as a necklace instead. Keith asks why he does that and Ronald says he does it to keep it close to his heart. Scott and Cassie show up and they also know about Keith getting arrested. Roy is then called in the office by his father Colonel Howard Weiss

Howard tells him about the mission which is that multiple people in a small town have been reported missing. While Howard does trust Rick, he doesn’t 100% trust the info that he has been given and warned his son that he and his unit might be falling into a trap. Roy assures his dad that they will be fine.

So they are in the forest heading to the area of the mission. At the area, we get a lot of sneaking around by Alpha Squad until the find documents of experiments going on in the area. The confusing thing for them is there are no names, just letters and numbers. Outside, Ronald thinks he hears something, but goes back to waiting after looking around. He then looks and sees a zombie so he radios the others about movement and goes to see what the movement is. He confronts one of the obvious zombies when more show up to attack.

He shoots several, but the bullet do nothing to stop them. He gets swarmed and killed. Keith sees this and shouts. Cassie and Roy also shows up and they start shooting. Keith wonders what is going on and Roy thinks they should retreat. They try to radio HQ about aborting the mission, but they do not get a response. Keith wants to control the situation, but Roy says no. They go inside the farm and to the basement. Keith wonders what those things were and Scott has papers, saying they were experiments. They also mention that those investors from earlier that left I don’t know behind went missing. We also find out these zombies are super enhanced. Cassie and Roy will scout ahead while Keith and Scott will watch the rear.

After a room, Roy has the other three scout ahead while he looks around. The other three find bodies in the next room and they think this might have been a setup. They then meet Dr. Nick and he basically admits that he is responsible for all of this. He admits the use of the town and the investors as experiments was all last resort because the government stopped funding his research. He basically reveals that his father discovered the fountain of youth under Hitler’s orders, but the research turned chaotic and the lab had to be destroyed, but his father saved samples. He injected himself with the samples to get across to America without customs busting him. Dr. Nick said the samples flow through his veins as he is 66 years old yet doesn’t look it. He reveals that he has sold this experiment to dealers all over the world and this won’t stop with just him.

He then walks away and more zombies show up to attack Alpha Squad. Roy also gets attacked, but he is able to kill most of them by shooting them in the head. Roy goes to the lab and sees Dr. Nick so he tries to go after him. We go back to the rest of Alpha Squad still dealing with most of the zombies and they start shooting zombies in the head. Keith gets bit, but unlike most zombie movies….he doesn’t turn into a zombie. They decide to retreat from the room they are in.

Back to Dr. Nick, he is cornered by Roy. He says that if he is killed, there will be no way to prevent a major outbreak so he is trying to use that as leverage to be allowed to get away. Another zombie escapes and Dr. Nick runs away. We then get a close quarter combat battle between Roy and this zombie.

In another room, Keith gets his wound taped up by Cassie. They are then confronted by Steel.

Dr. Nick goes outside and shoots more zombies, except the zombie of his former associate Dr. Will, who he just leaves.

Back with Keith, Cassie, and Scott having to deal with Steel. They try to shoot Steel, but the bullets just bounce off him. Keith then decides to try and fight Steel without a gun. Cassie tries to intervene, but gets her hand broken and she is then killed, which upsets Keith and Scott. Keith grabs a pipe and attacks Steel with it. More zombies show up and Scott has to shoot one up close, but sadly it was near his ear so he gets a ringing from it. Steel also for some reason attacks the other zombies so it seems he just hates everyone. Keith then grabs a grenade and Steel and blows the two of them up.

We Don’t See The Explosion, But We Hear It As Scott Gets Away.

Scott looks around, trying to find a way to get out. Scott goes to the wall and just sits down, reminiscing about the deaths of his comrades. He then comes face to face with the zombie version of Ronald.

He hesitates to shoot Ronald in the head and Ronald pounces, impaling Scott with a pipe.

Scott finally shoots Ronald and gets himself unimpaled from the pipe. And then we go to the mission aftermath. Seriously, we don’t see how the mission ended, but we get told it during an interrogation scene.

We then see Mr. Hoover get word that Scott has returned home, but he is in critical condition. Meanwhile, Howard is upset as we are made to believe his son Roy didn’t make it. We then have an interrogation between Rick Dallas and the spy which basically there is a zombie outbreak going on. We even see a scene where a mother is holding her dead daughter as zombies want into the house.

Anyway, they want to find Dr. Nick and the spy wont give up where he is. We then find out Roy did make it after all and he wants to have a few words with the spy.

Roy tells the spy that he is coming with him back to Bergman’s lab in hopes of stopping this. We then go to Dr. Nick as he is meeting with the guy whose name I do not know from the Human Interest Parties. Basically, that guy who I don’t know the name of basically had all of this planned with Dr. Nick and now the world will fall into chaos, which ultimately….they will be on top of. We find out that Dr. Nick is now a member of the Illuminati.

Yeah….Avoid Our Representative In Texas With Body Piercings As He Likes To Deal With Crazy Matthew McConaughey And His Crazy Redneck Family.

And that is where our movie ends.

So I have no idea how this movie did, but probably not well as there is no sequel which I assume was wanted based on stuff being left open ended. The only thing I do know about the aftermath of this film is the director of this film, Aleksander Ivicic, decided to change his name to just Xander. Nobody really did anything of note for me after this film.

We sadly have a few passings since this film came out and one actually happened before the film was released (telling you this film took years to make) as Dean Stock (who played one of the investors) died in 2015 at the age of 54. Michael O’Hear (who played Howard Weiss) passed away in 2020 at the age of 56 (kind of sucks he had no RIP since he was a major character in Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast, but I didn’t know until this induction that he passed away).

So now onto my final thoughts onto this film and truly this is a tale of two films. One film has soap opera overacting that makes me laugh at how bad it is and the other film is missing stuff that leaves me confused, but yet too bored to find out why. The practical effects at times are fine and terrible at times. There is a reason this film is not known by most people and that is because it is not worth mentioning other than the bad acting at times. Maybe someday, Xander will explain what happened with this film and explain why scenes like the survivors of Alpha Squad escaping the zombie attack are missing or the zombies going insane on town, but until then….this is all we get and it just feels like not worth my time to investigate.

Now it is December and I promised back in January that I would induct the 2024 GINO Award Winner here because it’s a Christmas movie, so now it is time to deliver.

See You Then.