Saturday, December 26, 2015

Movie review - "Men in War" (1994) **1/2

A decent Dolph Lundgren actioner which benefits from a script by John Sayles but is actually a little dull. Dolph plays a mercenary recruited to help take over an island on behalf of a company who want to harvest the guano.

Some neat touches: beautiful location photography; a local who keeps playing up "wise native" cliches; a female mercenary (Catherine Bell); a hot love scene between a topless Dolph (he's topless for most of the film) and topless Charlotte Lewis; a strong cast (including Perry Lang and Kevin McTighe who have made several films with Sayles); an Aussie mercenary called "Ocker".

There are OK characterisations too among the various fighters. But it was a bit flat and not particularly well directed. There wasn't that much action - a lot at the end admittedly. Dolph is stiff.

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