The Best Damn Mercenaries in the Business! Action Adventure Drama Thriller War. Did you know Edit. Trivia The movie's European premiere in London was marred by demonstrations by anti-Apartheid protesters, angry that this movie had been shot in South Africa with the cooperation of the then white government there. They were also angry at the reported negative portrayal of black Africans, although none of the protesters had seen this movie to verify this for themselves.
The producers handed out to the crowds copies of favorable reviews in the Soweto Times, the largest circulation black newspaper in South Africa, but these were thrown away by the demonstrators.
Goofs During the Medical Orderly's final scene he runs out of ammo for his Uzi. The weapon, however, doesn't click once but three times which is impossible with a real weapon. All of the three clicks were added post production to enhance the fact to the audience that Witty ran out of ammo. Alternate versions NBC edited 12 minutes from this film for its network television premiere.
User reviews Review. Top review. Imagine a film with three major stars put together with a good script and some fine action and what do you get: The Wild Geese. The three main leads are the main attraction of this film. It's hard to believe that actors of the caliber of Burton, Harris and Moore would either have chemistry or even be in the same film together. But put the three of them together as mercenaries and you get a truly explosive combination of three terrific actors.
None of them fail in their roles and they actually share quite a bit of chemistry between them especially in the final scene between Burton and Harris. The rest of the cast is not a let down either. Frank Finlay, Winston Ntshona and Stewart Granger all make welcomed appearances in the film in their supporting roles.
The film's script is a well-written action film with political overtones. While the politics of the film are dated now, the message for the times is still evident in the film. Outside of the political overtones the dialouge of the film is well-written and in some scenes is even touching especially in the final scene.
The action in the film is another highlight. The air drop into Africa, various raids by the Wild Geese and the final battle at the airstrip complement the story and never overwhelm the story and plot. Thanks to some good editing by editor John Glen who had edited three Bond films and would go on to direct five more Bond films the action is never dull and keeps the pace constant.
With a top-notch leading cast, a good supporting cast, a good script and spectacular action sequences, The Wild Geese is one of the better action films you can see. Despite being somewhat dated the film still packs quite a punch and could easily go up against any recent action film. A must see for action film fans. FAQ 4. The build-up of the first two acts is well crafted, but didn't impressed me that much, in that it reminded me of other films some of the shooting angles chosen by Kawashima are very impactful though.
It's the last act that rewards for me the total viewing experience. Part of my personal Wakao Ayako film festival. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Where to watch. Masaichi Nagata. Hiroshi Murai. Teruo Kajitani. Sei Ikeno. Studio Daiei Film.
Genre drama. Beautifully; haunting. Upgrade to remove ads. Did you know Edit. Trivia As Rudolf Hess, year-old Sir Laurence Olivier was in poor health during filming, and required a nurse to accompany him during production. Olivier was also beginning to suffer with memory problems, and labored for hours on his one long speech, because of having trouble remembering the dialogue.
Quotes John Haddad : Alright.. User reviews 28 Review. Top review. Better than it's reputation. So Wild Geese II, Nearly every review I have ever come across regarding this film has been very negative and to be honest from reading a lot of them I don't even think many had watched the movie to begin with The original Wild Geese - these days a Sunday afternoon guilty pleasure classic that when looked at objectively is actually a fairly routine action film with a join the dots script and pedestrian direction.
What makes that film work I suspect for most people is the actual African location photography and seeing a lot of mainly washed-up actors hamming it up ridiculously to pay their bar tabs. Wild Geese II is very different from that movie, new cast, mainly new crew and made nearly ten years later - Wild Geese II is more of a spy thriller than action film.
It offers a much more intelligent script, Great location work in Cold War era Berlin and some genuine storyline surprises. One aspect of the film that I think it really shares with the original is that any of the main characters can get killed at any time although it is a bit more edgy this time around. Another aspect - in this case bad unfortunately is seeing another washed-up actor hamming for the alcohol bills, Edward Fox in this case who is just plain awful here taking over from what would have been Richard Burton's role.
He plays second fiddle here to Scott Glenn - at the time flavor of the month upcoming star to appeal to the American market. Glenn although usually good in other movies is positively catatonic here. The interesting thing is that bad as the two leads are they do not bring the film down as the rest of the cast is filled out with mainly good supporting actors - the standouts being Barbara Carerra in a pretty thankless role as the love interest, an actor who plays an IRA gunman and another actor who plays a British Sergeant-Major.
Also Peter Hunt the director deserves credit for keeping the fairly convoluted story moving along at a brisk pace. So overall not as dated as the original but still dated, better story and better direction but with a bad rep - I think this is an unusual case of a sequel surpassing the original but audiences seem unwilling to give it a chance probably because the first just wasn't that good to begin with. FAQ 2.
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