First Light/Blink of an Eye never consists of anything more than gunplay and explosions. Bob Misiorowski handles these with an adequate competence, although his weakness tends to show up when it comes to human scenes. Unfortunately, the potentially interesting psychic soldier angle is of little importance to the film – Michael Paré’s character could be a standard two-fisted action hero for all that his psychic powers matter to the film. There are about two scenes where we see the potential the psychic soldier angle might have held – one where Michael Paré convinces a group of enemy soldiers that they are about to be set on fire and an intriguing scene when he uses his psi powers to compensate for having been temporarily blinded. However, the predominating focus on low-budget action quashes any potential the story might have. Michael Paré is, as usual, wooden.

First Light is also unique for its red-blooded take on American foreign policy. Michael Paré has an amazing speech: “We Americans have forgotten there’s such a thing as righteous anger and righteous violence ... All Americans will do is talk tough and negotiate until the headlines die ... Washington, Jefferson, Franklin – do you think they’d put up with stuff like this.” This is something that political events subsequent to the film’s making – a Kurdish refugee camp (ie. Iraq) as setting, terrorists kidnapping foreign aid workers as hostages – have only served to make even more relevant than at the time that First Light was made.
 

Trailer here:-