The Dogs of War 1980 123movies

Watch: The Dogs of War 1980 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jamie Shannon is a soldier of fortune — a mercenary who will stage a coup or a revolution for the right price. He is hired by British mining interests to scout out Zangaro, a small African nation with rich mineral deposits but a brutal and xenophobic dictatorship. Arrested soon after his arrival, Shannon is imprisoned as a spy, badly beaten, and tortured. While in prison he meets one of the country’s leading intellectuals, Dr. Okoye, also imprisoned by the regime. Eventually released, he returns to London and is subsequently offered to opportunity to secretly invade Zangaro’s capital and lead a military coup. Shannon accepts, but quietly has his own agenda to pursue..
Plot: Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
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Ratings:

	6.3/10 Votes: 8,699
	67% | RottenTomatoes
	56/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 106 Popularity: 11.435 | TMDB

Reviews:

critical, critiquing
Why do people get on here and try to re-tell the movie in their own words? Review the movie. Critique the movie. Don’t tell me what I’m gonna be seeing in such detail.it’s not necessary.1) brief summation…brief!!! 2)mention your opinion on the casting 3)the script4)how it shot,location,ect.stuff like that. Don’t write a book. Stop enjoying watching yourself type.

Solid tale of murky financial enterprise and it’s violent muscle
Frederick Forsyth’s novels always lay firm ground for a screenplay adaption and next to Fred Zinneman’s 1973 Day Of The Jackal this is the finest of the batch. It is not by any means perfect film-making as much of the sequences move along in a very by-the-numbers fashion, though never clumsily. Director Irvin seems more adept at the handling of his cast. Walken is solid as the coldly pragmatic soldier-for-hire, one of his best suited roles. And he has very convincing support all round.

There is very much the sense that the mercenary soldiers involved are bottom of the food chain in the greater and greedier scheme of things, and the money being offered for jobs risking life and limb seems pittance at that. The loneliness of the Walken character who seems to walk the land of the dead on civie street and only find his zest in combat is nicely emphasised. Most of the bureaucrats and tyrants are played perfectly for their complete lack of consideration for humanity. There are few if any obvious moral dictations in the narrative and this remains faithful to Forsyth’s approach. We are, after all, not playing with children here. This is a most violent and unscrupulous underbelly of the political world. The violence is matter of fact, only stylised in one particular brief scene of torture with a shard of glass that this viewer found to be one of the most painful from any film.

The ending is certainly worth the wait as Walken’s small fish turns the coup at the heart of the overall plot into a coup of his very own. In this there is something noble amidst the entire desolation of things and it is apparent that the man who wields the gun is always in charge.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 59 min (119 min), 1 hr 58 min (118 min) (UK), 1 hr 42 min (102 min) (USA), 1 hr 44 min (104 min) (TCM print) (USA), 1 hr 54 min (114 min) (cut) (1988) (video release) (Finland), 1 hr 45 min (105 min) (cut) (1981) (cinema release) (Finland)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
Director John Irvin
Writer Gary DeVore, George Malko, Frederick Forsyth
Actors Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely
Country United Kingdom
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK
Film Length 3,255 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm