Review of The Dogs of War

1980 · Directed by John Irvin
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A 1/5 means: Bad. Not saved by scattered sections of higher quality or inventiveness.

A rather pedestrian action movie. Its "message" about corruption and corporate capture of governance in Africa is made shabbily and with little nuance. Not worth watching once, much less again. I can't remember exactly why I picked it. I was bored, wanted a movie, arrived at the Wikipedia page somehow and said sure. Based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth, but if you've got time to kill, please just read his novel Day of the Jackal, which is much better entertainment.