Bad producing and directing undermines critique of mercs and racism in Africa
The Wild Geese was one of those big star war films that were so popular from the 50s-70s. It features Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger as a group of mercenaries who are hired by a British businessman Sir Edward Matheson (Stewart Granger) to rescue an imprisoned and deposed president Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona) in the fictional country of Zembala to protect Matheson’s copper interests. It suffered from poor action and poor acting.<br /><br />While the story would seem like it glorifies the mercenary there were questions about the trade as well. In one scene Kruger gives a monologue about how immoral their endeavor is. Then of course they are dealing with the greed of Matheson who simply wants to use them. Finally, they run into a priest in a Zembala village who calls them murdering bastards and if left to their own devices would start a civil war that would leave the people’s lives devastated.<br /><br />The film however is fatally flawed. First, the action is badly planned and choreographed. For instance, there’s a scene where the mercs get attacked on a bridge by an airplane. They stay in trucks while the plane strafes them instead of running for cover and then when some of the vehicles get blown up they make it like one part of the team can’t travel to the other side of the bridge when all they would have to do is walk across a dried river bed. Second, the film also tries to throw in some politics as Lambani talks with Kruger who plays a South African about race relations in Africa. After one speech by Lambani Kruger is ready to change his tune. Completely unbelievable.<br /><br />Wild Geese tried to capture the excitement of previous war films while criticizing mercenaries and throwing in some messaging about the racism then going on in Africa. The producing and directing was so bad however all that is lost.<br />C
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