Christmas Movie #2
(Ok, The Wild Geese really isn’t a
Christmas movie. Much like Die Hard, it’s set around Christmastime. Oh, and it would have been perfect for my
tribute to Roger Moore’s non-007 films)
Synopsis: Soldiers
of Fortune save the day….hey, this is just like a 2-hour episode of The A Team, except that people actually
die, Hannibal drinks too much, and Face likes to murder drug dealers.
Blurb From the VHS
Jacket: “The action-packed story of a band of mercenaries who risk their
lives against incredible odds, THE WILD GEESE will take you soaring into the
world of raw courage and high adventure.”
What Did I Learn?:
It’s a really bad idea to attempt to pull a fast one on men who have
been trained to kill for a living.
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Movie If: you'll watch anything that involves violent, wild geese.
Really?: Hold on –
I realize Sir Edward Matherson is a wealthy and powerful guy, but I had a hard
time believing a banker could get a mafia boss out of bed at 3 in the morning
and then strong-arm him into dropping the contract on Lt. Flynn’s (Moore) life.
Rating: The Wild Geese is a bit dated by today’s
standards, chock full of characters and situations that may offend the
politically correct (one of the mercenaries is a white South African who doesn’t
particularly like black people, while the medic is flamboyantly gay), and
Richard Burton admitted that he portrayed Colonel Faulkner strictly for the
paycheque. That said, the movie holds up well as an edge-of-your-seat
action-adventure film, and it even features some surprisingly touching scenes,
especially the ones between Capt. Janders (Richard Harris) and his son. The Wild Geese is definitely worth a
viewing. 8/10 stars.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078492/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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