The Hunt for Eagle One is a 2006 direct-to-video war film directed by Brian Clyde and produced by Roger Corman, starring Mark Dacascos, Theresa Randle, Ricardo Cepeda, Rutger Hauer, Joe Suba, and Zach McGowan.
After a successful amphibious insertion, a small group of U.S. Marines prepare for combat against local rebels on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
The pair had worked together on over 20 productions,[4] including When Eagles Strike (2003), a similar war action movie filmed in the Philippines.
A bigger budget and longer shooting schedule, not to mention about 30 extra minutes added to the running time, would have fleshed out the characters and the political situation in the Philippines.
To be sure, the script for Eagle One doesn’t show much interest in being substantive on a geopolitical level, not that anyone should notice, as that particular niche is currently filled up by Hollywood ala Syriana and others.
"[5] Robert Cetti, in Terrorism in American Cinema: An Analytical Filmography, 1960-2008, described The Hunt for Eagle One as mainly a war film with "parallels to the mainstream hit 'Black Hawk Down'."