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Original Title: The Dogs Of War

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Jamie Shannon is a soldier of fortune -- a mercenary who will stage a coup or a revolution for the right price. He is hired by British mining interests to scout out Zangaro, a small African nation with rich mineral deposits but a brutal and xenophobic dictatorship. Arrested soon after his arrival, Shannon is imprisoned as a spy, badly beaten, and tortured. While in prison he meets one of the country's leading intellectuals, Dr. Okoye, also imprisoned by the regime. Eventually released, he returns to London and is subsequently offered to opportunity to secretly invade Zangaro's capital and lead a military coup. Shannon accepts, but quietly has his own agenda to pursue.
An American mercenary executes a coup in a small African country designed to bring to power another dictator friendlier to a British multinational company. Not a remake of _The Wild Geese_ but another and more faithful adaptation of the novel 'The Dogs of War'.
Christopher Walken plays ruthless mercenary Jamie Shannon, who is hired by a British mining company to lead a revolution in an African nation to overthrow the dictator, so that they can install their own leader, who is friendly to their interests. Things go wrong and Shannon is captured and beaten, though manages to escape, and vows to return, seeking vengeance, though again this doesn't go as planned either...

Based on a novel By Frederick Forsyth, this adaptation falls short of his other two films("The Day Of The Jackal" & "The Odessa File"). Characters are unsympathetic, and action scenes are pretty routine, though the acting is fine, film is just mostly forgettable. The Dogs of War is a familiar but rock-solid early take on the international mercenary-led political coup before it became bastardized by a generation of pulpier Rambo knock-offs (including Christopher Walken's own McBain in 1991). Based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth, veteran of '70s spy-thriller The Day of the Jackal, there's more than a whiff of John le Carré here in regards to tone and pacing, and it's a worthy comparison. Debut director John Irvin keeps politics and social commentary a priority, while the poster fodder, blockbuster-y action is still thrilling, but a more grounded, associative afterthought.

It's a fairly simple, firmly three-act affair, as Walken's steely mercenary Jamie Shannon leads two incursions into the (fictional) corrupt African republic of Zangaro: one surveillance, and one military siege. Irvin certainly isn't afraid to take his time, devoting long stretches to the intricacies of Shannon's subterfuge, from his being held up at the airport by corrupt border guards, to his fastidious memorizing the Latin names of local birds to substantiate his cover as ornithologist. It's slow-burning, but Irvin handles it capably, keeping the pacing magnetic. His work is fairly unshowy, and it's tempting to imagine how a more experienced director might have pushed the envelope further and really transformed Shannon's isolation into a transcendental Apocalypse Now type cinematic experience. Still, the film's almost entirely absent soundtrack is effective, and keeps the tension bubbling claustrophobically throughout. In fact, it's really just in the film's middle third, where a disgraced Shannon is unceremoniously evicted from Zangaro, where Irvin's slow-burning turns sluggish to a trying extent. Here, Irvin uncomfortably mirrors Shannon's listless reevaluation of his life, including a logistical planning segment that could easily have trimmed 20-30 minutes without sacrificing any cohesion.

Still, Irvin is good at interrupting the potboiling with bursts of frantic action. The opening sequence, dropping the viewer in midway through a previous incursion, is a perfectly chaotic and disorienting note to ground the film on. Midway through the film, Shannon's capture and brutal beating by the Zangaro military (aided by some distressingly believable prosthetic work) lends gruesome consequence to his actions. Finally, Shannon's return with his strike team (including a moustached Tom Berenger and Raiders of the Lost Ark's Paul Freeman) is a long time coming, but such a spectacular maelstrom of pyrotechnics and grenade launchers it's a spectacularly cathartic blowout to the nearly two hours of buildup preceding it. Is it all worth it? By the end, we, like Shannon, are too bludgeoned by the senselessness of combat and political string-pulling (including a seedy reveal of Zangaro's coup being largely funded through British mining trade interests) to be sure. The "War! What is it good for?" moral isn't the most original, but Irvin certainly reiterates it with conviction.

If nothing else, The Dogs of War is a crucial illustration in how best to work the notoriously eccentric Christopher Walken as a leading man: let him play the strong, silent type, and allow his eerily riveting facial expressions do the heavy lifting. Slinking through the film with ruthless composure like an eerily doll-like Terminator, Walken's Shannon is perfectly bottled up - hard-edged professionalism as survival mechanism. It's probably the closest he's ever come to a conventional leading man performance - there's no dancing, weird inflection or goofiness here, just the occasional sarcastic one-liner or glint of pure madness in his eyes exposing his stunted ideals and the deep responsibility he feels for his strike team threatening to volcanically explode. There's a multifold catharsis that comes from Shannon finally getting to let loose with a grenade launcher in the final incursion on Zangaro, but his dead-eyed departure from the war zone suggests there is still no peace to be had. It's a remarkably subtle performance, and enough to make you miss the days when Walken was an actor foremost, and Christopher Walken the cult icon second.

-7.5/10 Exceedingly well-shot (by Jack Cardiff) action film that will evaporate from the memory shortly after the end credits roll.
Derek's sand coloured beret with a winged dagger badge denotes him as a member of the British Special Air Service (SAS). He is thought to be loosely based on John Peters, a former SAS soldier who served as a mercenary with 'Mad' Mike Hoare during his campaign in the Congo in the 1960s. Michel is a member of the French Foreign Legion parachute regiment, he is thought to be loosely based on famous French mercenary Bob Denard. It is unclear what Shannon and Drew's parent units were or if they were inspired by real life figures.

-In the opening scene in South America the team use CAR-15s, the carbine version of the US Army's M16 assault rifle. In Africa the mercenary force use Israeli Uzi 9mm submachineguns although a few of their troops also employ MAC-10 Ingrams. The also make good use of 66mm LAW (Light Anti-tank Weapon) rockets and Claymore mines whilst Derek seizes an M60 machinegun from the goverment troops and turns it against them. The iconic multi-shot grenade launcher they use is the XM-18

-Famous British mercenary 'Mad' Mike Hoare's attempted coup in the Seychelles strongly resembles the events in the 'Dogs of War'. Bob Denard's attempted coup in Benin is also similar. More remarkable is that it appears to have inspired an attempted coup by former Scots Guards and SAS soldier Simon Mann who led a force of South African mercenaries to overthrow of the dictatorship of oil rich Equatorial Guinea.

-In the book none of the mercenaries are American, Shannon is British, an Irish Unionist and ex-Royal Marine Commando who saw action in the Cyprus campaign. Rather than four mercenaries there are six including a South African and a German. Shannon is not captured and tortured during his initial reconaissance mission and instead of the subplot with the journalist the team find themselves in deadly conflict with a rival French mercenary. The weapons they use are very different and the process of obtaining them far longer and more convoluted. Shannon does not have a reconciliation with his ex-fiancee but instead has an affair with his employers' fashion model daughter. The character of Colonel Bobi is a far less impressive figure and in the end Shannon replaces him with an idealistic former African rebel leader for whom he has previously worked rather than the doctor. At the end of the book Shannon commits suicide as it is revealed that he has been suffering terminal lung cancer throughout the story. The Great Spirit full movie online free
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