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Oct 14, 2019. Mercenary soldiers Jamie (Christopher Walken) and Drew (Tom Berenger) are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an iron-fisted despot. Once ...
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Feb 13, 1981 · The Dogs of War: Directed by John Irvin. With Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Hugh Millais. Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported.
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Filter by Rating: 7/10. Gritty and violent motion picture in the debut theatrical feature for director John Irvin. ma-cortes 26 August 2013. The "dogs of war" (this phrase takes its literary origins from William Shakespeare) is an exciting as well as interesting action/war film .
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As Endean (Hugh Millais) explains during the mission brief, the recently independent nation Zangaro is under the brutal rule of President Kimba, and this won’t do. He makes no overtures to humanitarianism, and Shannon requires none. Endean represents businessmen with interests in Zangaro’s natural resources, and they don’t want to venture into a pa...
The Dogs of War is based on a 1974 novel by Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal. Like that adaptation, this film is interested in the logistics of an operation. How do guns leave one country and enter another? The first half of the movie is entirely Shannon’s recon mission, and the second half is mostly taken up by business deals in ...
It would seem to be contradictory if the message of Dogs of War is that imperial intervention (in this case, both American and British) is a bad thing but the resolution is “well, choose the right guy.” Shannon leaves Zangaro in better hands, but he and the survivors of his team drive off in silence. One of them is dead, and they’re surrounded by d...
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Nov 4, 2019 · 7/10. Jamie Havlin takes a look at an thriller from the 1980s starring Academy Award winner Christopher Walken. Based on Frederick Forsyth ‘s 1974 bestseller, John Irvin ‘s film doesn’t take its time to get out the blocks. We’re hurtled straight into frenetic action in the middle of a chaotic war zone in Central America.
Variety. The Dogs of War [from Frederick Forsyth's novel] is an intelligent and occasionally forceful treatment of a provocative but little-examined theme, that of mercenary warrior involvement in the overthrow of a corrupt black African dictatorship. Film fails to really get at the heart of the whys and hows of mercenary life, and also rejects ...
