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Summary: Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire!
Review: Better than the Forsythe book, a keeper. Technically pretty accurate, including a scene with a claymore mine showing "FRONT TOWARD ENEMY" then BOOM.
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Summary: Still good after twenty some years
Review: Can only add to the other accolades. Whooped it up when I spotted the 'guide' in the bird-watching sequence as the same actor (Christopher Asante aka Gyearbuor Asante) playing the parish minister in "Local Hero" (what a change in roles) and that a much younger and thinner Jim Broadbent of "Topsy-Turvy" and "Moulin Rouge" has a negligible part as a cameraman. You'll also see Paul Freeman, George Harris, and Eddie Tagoe in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" made the same year. A good shoot'em up and the price is right. What a pity that the lovely Maggie Scott apparently never graced other films!
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Summary: War and Advance Work
Review: Christopher Walken plays an intense, taciturn hired soldier living in a roach infested apartment, sparsley furnished with a refrigerator content of beer, Hershey bars and a .45 pistol. He gets a contract to snoop around the non-aligned African nation of 'Zangaro', a scene between he and a customs officer is priceless. 'Zangaro' is mineral rich but run by a despotic nut. While in country Walken meets up with a UK journalist, well played by Colin Blakely in a rather funny and very believable role. Walken also runs afoul of the police and winds up on the business end of a rubber hose. Those who paid Walken to give the country a look-see now decide the whole government needs to go into the dumper if they are too get their hands on the riches beneath the topsoil and it becomes his job to hire, organize and train the men for the mission. Good characters, a story that holds your interest and some nice action.
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Summary: War and Advance Work
Review: Christopher Walken plays an intense, taciturn hired soldier living in a roach infested apartment, sparsley furnished with a refrigerator content of beer, Hershey bars and a .45 pistol. He gets a contract to snoop around the non-aligned African nation of 'Zangaro', a scene between he and a customs officer is priceless. 'Zangaro' is mineral rich but run by a despotic nut. While in country Walken meets up with a UK journalist, well played by Colin Blakely in a rather funny and very believable role. Walken also runs afoul of the police and winds up on the business end of a rubber hose. Those who paid Walken to give the country a look-see now decide the whole government needs to go into the dumper if they are too get their hands on the riches beneath the topsoil and it becomes his job to hire, organize and train the men for the mission. Good characters, a story that holds your interest and some nice action.
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Summary: good old violent 80's action trash
Review: Filmed in Belize, not anywhere near Africa, this brutal story about a bunch of mercenaries moves right along. Walken is as good as ever in the pedestrian scritped adaptation of the Forsythe novel. One of the most violent flicks I have ever seen. A really ruthless tone to the whole thing. Oh yeah the revolving grenade launcher that Chris sports is boss.
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Summary: Cry Havoc...
Review: From start to finish, this is the kind of movie that most young actors would kill to star in; smart, with a good script and enough character actors to anchor the film firmly into your subconscious.I should admit I'm a huge Chris Walken fan from way back, so of course I'm biased, but if you watch the film carefully, you'll see that it warrants repeated viewings. If I have any complaints at all, it would be the video quality, which is why the DVD is a much better bet. Still budget priced, and due to its age, the movie doesn't have much in the way of extra features, but that doesn't detract from it one bit.
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Summary: THIS MOVIE IS SO BAD THAT THE TITLE INSULTS THE DOGS.
Review: Generally when you see a movie you expect to see many obsticals which interfere with the main character(s) final objective. This movie featured only one. DOGS OF WAR is a story about a mercinary (CHRISTOPHER WALKEN) who is hired to organize a group of mercenaries, go into a foreign country, and overthrow the leader so another man could rule the country. He goes to the country to scope it out and he is arrested within one week of his arrival. while in prison, he meets the man who TRULY should be the leader of the country (not the current leader or the man he was supposed to open the door for) and he changes his mind and decides to support his cell-mate. He gets deported, organizes his gang, returns to the country and kicks butt. The only obstical he or his men face is when one of his men is shot in the back by a woman who is protecting her children. The best scene of the movie is when a jeep literally drives over a chiken (doesn't hit the chicken) and the chicken stagers out a bit confused. On your next trip to the video store, rush out and MISS this video. Try something like RONIN instead.
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Summary: A Great Movie
Review: HEY! "The Dogs of War" is the greatest merc movie ever. You really have to wonder what kind of masochist would think being tortured and thrown into a third-world prison isn't an "obstical".
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Summary: I'm off to Zangaro for my hols..
Review: Huge mountain of platinum is discovered in upside down West African country. Mercenaries are hired to destablize the ruling regime and install a puppet government friendly to western big business interests. Chris Walken gets to hang tough and blow up a lot of army installations and coloured people. Brilliant stuff.
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Summary: Excellent war film!
Review: I haven't seen the DVD, just the vid, but it's a film that I've watched many times. It holds up reallly well with repeated viewings, with another incredible performance by Walken. I don't consider the beginning slow, the episode in Zangaro is very creepy. I just wish David Lean had directed the movie, the story is worth it.
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