The storyline is not that bad but the acting is horrible. It's took artificial from the very first second. Don't waste your time watching this movie.

Sometimes, the best military actioneers are low-budget thrillers set in confined spaces. Predictably, the bad guys outnumber the good guys, and the villains have far more ammo. Complicating matters, the heroes are cut off because mountainous terrain interferes with their ability to contact headquarters. Indeed, the villains enjoy greater advantages, while our heroes have only honor to inspire them. Meantime, both sides wage a constant battle for survival against the wintery environment with its bone-chilling temperatures and the pitch-black oblivion of nightfall in a country sprawling with mountains. "Black Ops" writer & director Tom Paton chose Afghanistan as the setting for his contemporary, white-knuckled, bullet-riddled exercise in war-time suspense and tension, "400 Bullets," starring Jean-Paul Ly, Andrew Lee Potts, and James Warren. Basically, an elite outfit of British soldiers, led by Bartlett (James Warren of "The Gentlemen"),is transporting a crate of high-tech missiles along with a fortune in gold ingots through Northern Afghanistan. The Taliban ambushes them, and everything goes sideways. A virtuous young British officer, Captain Noah Brandt (Andrew Lee Potts of "House of Salem"),is accompanying Bartlett and his culturally diverse soldiers. Two are heavily armed dames. Now, Brandt isn't part of Bartlett's unit. Instead, Brandt has orders to safeguard the missile guidance chips. Without these computer chips that Brandt totes around in a titanium case, the missiles would be so much scrap metal.

Imagine our hero's surprise when the Taliban ambushes their small convoy of vehicles in the middle of the night, and bullets swarm around them like furious hornets! Initially, when the Taliban starts shooting, Bartlett jams on their brakes and careens to a jarring halt in the middle of the road. Noah follows another British soldier, Beasley (newcomer Eddie-Joe Robinson),out of their vehicle, while the Taliban rake the convoy with withering barrages of gunfire. This lethal hail of lead cuts down the ill-fated Beasley. Noah emerges moments later with blood caked on his head from where he smashed it when the vehicle braked. As he scrambles for cover, Noah notices Bartlett's men and women appear to have been wiped out, too. After Beasley dies, Noah manages to limp away with a minor wound and vanishes into the inky depths of night. Eventually, the resourceful British captain stumbles some twelve miles into a Gurkha army outpost. Incidentally, the title "400 Bullets" refers to the number of cartridges stored in this arsenal. Noah is frustrated when he learns only two soldiers patrol the arsenal. The rest of the Gurkhas have been redeployed to safeguard a road 40 miles away. Rana Rae (Jean-Paul Ly of "Viking Siege") removes the Taliban slug from Noah's side about the same time Taliban gunmen descend onto the outpost in their SUVs and start shooting the smithereens out of it.

Little does Noah realize the nefarious Bartlett and his accomplices were playing possum during the ambush. Meantime, the Taliban shot the wrong Briton by mistake. The plain-spoken Taliban leader, Amir Wassiq (Adam Sina),apologizes to an annoyed Bartlett (James Warren of "Wrath of Man") about this unfortunate mishap. Amir complains that both Beasley and Brandt were identical. Earlier, the Taliban had arranged to buy the missiles with the guidance chips from Bartlett for a small fortune. Afterward, Bartlett and his treasonous chums had planned to go 'missing in action' and live happily ever after on their ill-gotten gains. The hand of fate that spared Noah trashes Bartlett's best-laid plans to get those chips.

Honor as a central theme infuses "400 Bullets." Writer & director Tim Paton made the film as a tribute to the legendary mystique of Gurkha warriors. "I kind of feel like the Gurkhas," said Paton, "deserve their own 'Rambo.'" This represents the first time a Gurkha soldier has played the hero of a war movie. For the record, Gurkhas are Nepalese soldiers renowned for their military honor, expertise, and highly disciplined training. Ironically, although cast as a Gurkha, Jean-Paul Ly is actually of Chinese & Cambodian lineage. Surprisingly, nobody has derided Paton's efficiently helmed, nimbly paced, 90-minute epic for this politically incongruent casting goof. Not only is Ly thoroughly believable as a Gurkha, but he is also an accomplished stunt man. He has performed stunts in as many as 25 films and television shows, including "Lucy" (2014),"Now You See Me 2" (2016),"Doctor Strange" (2016) and the forthcoming "Venom" sequel (2021). If you haven't seen his brutal six-minute action short "Acéré" (2020) on YouTube, you've missed a treat! Ly makes a vulnerable but sympathetic hero driven by his sense of honor to never capitulate no matter how desperate things appear. Just when his virulent adversaries think they've beaten him into submission, Rana rebounds for more abuse! Meantime, "400 Bullets" consists of more than just wall-to-wall firefights and fisticuffs.

Paton milks the hushed moments between the mayhem for the utmost suspense and tension. He shifts from the deafening firefights outside the Gurkha facilities for scenes inside it with the heroes and villains stalking each other in nail-biting cat & mouse situations. Paton stages grueling close-quarters combat scenes that may strike the squeamish souls as too harrowing. These pugnacious combatants stagger around wearily and deliver savage blows with fists, knives, and feet. You'll feel as fatigued as they look when the victors collapse from sheer exhaustion. Nothing about the ferocious R-rated violence and profane language have been softened. Just about everybody utters the F-word. The key to a good thriller is a sadistic villain who never gives our two heroes a break. The atmospheric claustrophobia of "400 Bullets" generates a sense of paranoia as the heroes and villains fight with relentless vigor. James Warren drips with treachery, while Wayne Gordon as Johnson and Adesuwa Oni are take top honor as his sadistic subalterns. "400 Bullets" rewards both its heroes and its audiences with realistic shootouts and pressure cooker suspense.

Noah Brandt (Andrew Lee Potts) is part of a Black Ops team transporting weapons and computer chips in a convoy in Northern Afghanistan which is all Taliban country. The group is ambushed. Noah manages to get away and heads north injured. We quickly find out he was the other person who was supposed to die as this was an inside job with soldiers selling out and selling these high tech weapons. Because Noah survived, they need to hunt him down and kill him. He makes it to an outpost manned by Jean-Paul Ly because Tony Jaa is too expensive and Dolph is too old.

This is an action film with a lot of fighting. The keep the dialogue light to prevent the film from getting dragged down.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.