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Wild Geese II (1985)

October. 18,1985
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4.8
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R
| Action Thriller
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A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

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Afouotos
1985/10/18

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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CrawlerChunky
1985/10/19

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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Geraldine
1985/10/20

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Billy Ollie
1985/10/21

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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verbusen
1985/10/22

I'm not rating this a 9 of 10 compared to ALL the masterpiece films ever made, no this is not in the realm of a 2001 a Space Odyssey or such, but I got into this enough for the action genre to give it a 9 of 10 rating. The 4 score on IMDb is way under what it should be, so I'll try to justify why it's rated so low. I am imagining people are comparing it to The Wild Geese and why wouldn't you? The movie poster says they are back on another mission. Trouble is no one in the first film is in this one, nor has it anything to do with Africa. So don't watch this as a sequel because it's not. It's barely a mercenary film, it's more of a caper/ espionage film. There are several "Oh Crap" moments I had watching this, which makes it cool in my book, I mean The Wild Geese had like one of those when they blow up the bridge and the rest was pretty formulaic, I do not want to compare this to WG though as I loved that film also, I'm just saying that this film is not formulaic at all, it will surprise you, at least two or three times, trust me. Edward Fox replays his Day Of The Jackal role to an extent, and Scott Glenn is at the peak of his bad as*ness career. If you are looking for eye candy from Barbara Carrera you won't find anything, she is there to mainly get in the way but she's not annoying so it's still all good, just don't look for her to flash anything, she is bundled up throughout the film (at least the cut I watched). This film if I could give you an idea of what it felt like, it really reminded me of "The Dogs Of War' in it's grittiness. I'm happy I tuned into this 4.6 rated action film, it's probably the best 4.6 rated film I'll see in years. I rate it a 9 out of 10.

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unclecessna
1985/10/23

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.

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ShadeGrenade
1985/10/24

'The Wild Geese' ( 1978 ), by no means a classic, was Oscar winning stuff compared to this stinker. Edward Fox plays the brother of the Richard Burton character; the dialogue at the start tries to imply that Eddie was out there alongside Richard in the African veldt. Oh no he wasn't! Based on Daniel Carney's 'The Square Circle', this is rubbish as adventure, lacking in action, being a compendium of the worst spy movie clichés of all time. At one point, someone even says: "We ask the questions!". Roger Moore had the good sense to turn it down, instead we get Scott Glenn looking as though he's stepped off the set of 'Westworld', and Barbara Carrera as the token crumpet. The plot concerns a publicity seeking U.S. news network hiring mercenaries to free Rudolf Hess from Spandau prison. Whilst it was possible to root for the original Wild Geese as they rescued a democratically-elected Prime Minister, its impossible to care if Glenn, Fox and Carrera spring Hess. Luckily for us, Euan Lloyd retired not long afterwards.

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Eric Jarvis
1985/10/25

A very disappointing ending, I kept waiting for the reason WHY the people involved wished to "rescue" Hess! but this was never revealed, what a waste of good actors in my opinion. The ending was a bit rushed with no real conclusion. A pointless remake with the original far superior. OK acting with some good action but with no story as such. Nothing to really hold you except that you kept wondering why they wanted to "rescue" him and that by the end of the film you are still kept wondering. Actors were trying to make a story from the film but to no avail. Some good dialogue and reasonable tension makes it just about watchable.

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