Batjac - 49
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Batjac - 49's rating
Maybe I'm in the minority, but this film was just a very cliche riddled script about Catholics & Jews, and watching it was like listening to someone tell the same old religious joke for the hundredth time.....
Norton & Stiller are marvellous young actors, but their talents are wasted in this lack lustre vehicle...Elfman is over rated and only on screen for her stunning looks....she looks uncomfortable and ill at ease on screen.
Edward Norton obviously tried hard to make a humourous religious / buddy movie, but the film lacks any real zing...the few decent laughs in this film are broken up by long boring pieces with banal dialogue & no direction in the script. I wasn't the only one to notice these weak points in the film....my six friends who accompanied me to see this film were all nodding off to sleep too !!
A dissapointing film that could have been so much better....!
Norton & Stiller are marvellous young actors, but their talents are wasted in this lack lustre vehicle...Elfman is over rated and only on screen for her stunning looks....she looks uncomfortable and ill at ease on screen.
Edward Norton obviously tried hard to make a humourous religious / buddy movie, but the film lacks any real zing...the few decent laughs in this film are broken up by long boring pieces with banal dialogue & no direction in the script. I wasn't the only one to notice these weak points in the film....my six friends who accompanied me to see this film were all nodding off to sleep too !!
A dissapointing film that could have been so much better....!
From the trailers of this movie, I had high hopes of it being a really inventive mountaineering flick with spectacular stunt work !!
However, after the first five minutes I got a sense of deja vu, and I felt like I was watching a remake of the 1993 Sylvester Stallone movie "Cliffhanger" ! Virtually exactly the same opening sequence (albeit in Arizona rather than Colarado)....O'Donnell's character suffers the same guilt complex as Stallone's due to a tragedy....and then we have an incredible series of events that compel the lead character to confront his demons and conquer his climbing fears ! O'Donnell even virtually duplicates the incredible aerial leap sequence that Stallone did in "Cliffhanger" !!
And the way in "Vertical Limit" that those guys were sloshing around that nitro-glycerine in their back packs....they would have all been blown to kingdom come !
The only shining light in the movie was Scott Glen as some grizzled old mountaineer....and Aussie actor Ben Mendlesohn as a wise cracking young climber !
An enjoyable film with some hair raising stunts, but albeit a dissapointing one in the script department. They could have done so much more with this movie.....
However, after the first five minutes I got a sense of deja vu, and I felt like I was watching a remake of the 1993 Sylvester Stallone movie "Cliffhanger" ! Virtually exactly the same opening sequence (albeit in Arizona rather than Colarado)....O'Donnell's character suffers the same guilt complex as Stallone's due to a tragedy....and then we have an incredible series of events that compel the lead character to confront his demons and conquer his climbing fears ! O'Donnell even virtually duplicates the incredible aerial leap sequence that Stallone did in "Cliffhanger" !!
And the way in "Vertical Limit" that those guys were sloshing around that nitro-glycerine in their back packs....they would have all been blown to kingdom come !
The only shining light in the movie was Scott Glen as some grizzled old mountaineer....and Aussie actor Ben Mendlesohn as a wise cracking young climber !
An enjoyable film with some hair raising stunts, but albeit a dissapointing one in the script department. They could have done so much more with this movie.....
Allegedly, loosely based on the incredible adventures of "Mad Mike" Hoare and his mercenary unit operating in the Belgian Congo in the early sixties rescuing Westerners and stemmimg tribal violence..."The Wild Geese" is a real "Boys Own" adventure that races along like a good action film should !
Ageing mercenary leader Allan Faulkner (Richard Burton) is hired by wealthy, but unscrupulous, merchant banker Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger in an oily performance) to rescue an imprisoned African leader, Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona) from terrorists and turn him over to his own people...at stake are copper mine concessions in Africa worth millions !!
Burton enlists the aid of war time pals, Capt. Rafer Janders (Richard Harris) debonair pilot Lt. Shawn Fynn (Roger Moore), ex-South African troubleshooter Pieter Coetze (Hardy Kruger) and 'tough as nails' RSM Sandy Young (Jack Watson) as well as about 40 other mercenaries to engage on one last adventure for truth, justice and a very large paycheck.
Burton & Co. parachute into darkened Africa and all goes well....until a double cross emerges and the Wild Geese are running for their lives....outgunned and outmanned by the pursuing brutal, machete-wielding Simba troops
When the action commences in "The Wild Geese"...it comes thick and fast...the film is filled with gritty firefights, fast paced entertainment and colorful use of African savannah / veldt locations for the battle scenes....highly recommended for fans of the action / war genre !!
Just when is this film going to come out on DVD ???
Ageing mercenary leader Allan Faulkner (Richard Burton) is hired by wealthy, but unscrupulous, merchant banker Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger in an oily performance) to rescue an imprisoned African leader, Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona) from terrorists and turn him over to his own people...at stake are copper mine concessions in Africa worth millions !!
Burton enlists the aid of war time pals, Capt. Rafer Janders (Richard Harris) debonair pilot Lt. Shawn Fynn (Roger Moore), ex-South African troubleshooter Pieter Coetze (Hardy Kruger) and 'tough as nails' RSM Sandy Young (Jack Watson) as well as about 40 other mercenaries to engage on one last adventure for truth, justice and a very large paycheck.
Burton & Co. parachute into darkened Africa and all goes well....until a double cross emerges and the Wild Geese are running for their lives....outgunned and outmanned by the pursuing brutal, machete-wielding Simba troops
When the action commences in "The Wild Geese"...it comes thick and fast...the film is filled with gritty firefights, fast paced entertainment and colorful use of African savannah / veldt locations for the battle scenes....highly recommended for fans of the action / war genre !!
Just when is this film going to come out on DVD ???