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      Wild Geese II

      R 1985 2h 5m Action List
      Reviews 19% 100+ Ratings Audience Score TV people want mercenaries (Scott Glenn, Edward Fox) to spring Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess from Spandau prison in Berlin. Read More Read Less

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      Eddie Harrison film-authority.com with Glenn acting super-tough, lots of German location work, and a few fiery bursts of street action, Wild Geese II is rather better than its benighted reputation might suggest Rated: 3/5 Mar 27, 2022 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy It's all rather preposterous and not very exciting. Rated: 2/4 May 23, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Jeffrey L In the running for the worst movie I have ever seen. Loved The Wild Geese, so foolishly went to see this. I was the only person in the cinema. For good reason. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/30/23 Full Review Audience Member If you can get past Scott Glenn's terrible wooden acting and Edward Fox's dreadful English accent its not a bad film. The story is pretty sound, so a wasted opportunity. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I'd like to see the fucker first! :-( Where is it? Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member This was a believable film in its day. I saw it on Cinemax back in the 1980s and it has stuck with me though Ive not seen it since. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member When I bought the original The Wild Geese (mostly for nostalgic reasons) on Blu-ray I got The Wild Geese II on DVD included. I would probably not have bought it otherwise. This movie is typical example of the "follow ups" that where done in the 80's. Base it loosely on the title of the original, none of the original actors are present, give it zero budget. In short this movie is lousy. Why it was made, apart from being a cheap attempt to squeeze some more money from the success of the original, is beyond me. It is claimed that Richard Burton was going to reprise his role in this one but that he died before he could do it. I would be surprised if Richard Burton would have accepted to play in this movie. At least not without some major rewrites. The story is dubious to say the least. Sure the story in the original was not very ground breaking either but in the original The Wild Geese the actors had charisma. Richard Burton was the infallible (almost) though guy that knew what he was doing. In this one Scott Glenn runs around looking like a wimp and generally do not really seem to know what he is doing. He gets captured by the oldest of tricks. He is too stupid to realize the most obvious of things, like that the girl might need protection. There is little of the actual mercenary action that was present in the original one. The good guys mostly walk around scouting, planning or screwing up. The little enjoyment that can be found is in the performance of Edward Fox who is also the only guy who remotely seems to know what he is doing. The end is just silly. All that effort, not the least by the viewer having watched this crap to the end, is simply wasted. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member 7 years after The Wild Geese came out, producer Euan Lloyd set about adapting Daniel Carney's 1982 book The Square Circle as a sequel to The Wild Geese, he signed up director Peter Hunt (On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and Gold (1974) to direct it. But it was a production fraught with difficulties, and it sank without trace, and it's no surprise, as it has no returning cast from the first film, which makes this more of a cash-in than a sequel. Nazi leader Rudolf Hess (Laurence Olivier) is behind bars, but he has secrets that could bring down world governments, and now people are out to kill him. Alex Faulkner (Edward Fox) is assigned by Robert McCann (Robert Webber) and Michael and Kathy Lukas (John Terry and Barbara Carrera) to go and rescue the elderly Hess. Knowing the risks, Faulkner refuses, but he recommends Lebanese-American soldier John Haddad (Scott Glenn) to do the job. Haddad agrees, and goes to West Berlin, but no sooner than he arrives than he is abducted by East German spy Karl Stroebling (Robert Freitag), but Haddad is prepared to finish the job. It's a dull film sadly, and it has non of the excitement of the original film, mainly because it's moved from an African adventure to a Cold War espionage thriller. Richard Burton was to have been in it, but he died days before filming started, what a shame. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis TV people want mercenaries (Scott Glenn, Edward Fox) to spring Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess from Spandau prison in Berlin.
      Director
      Peter Hunt
      Producer
      Chris Chrisafis
      Screenwriter
      Daniel Carney, Reginald Rose
      Production Co
      Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, Frontier Film Productions Limited
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Action
      Original Language
      English (United Kingdom)
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jun 5, 2018
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $31.2K
      Runtime
      2h 5m