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August 25th 2006 07:25
Dog Soldiers
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Writer/Director: Neil Marshal
Starring: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham
Picture: Widescreen Audio: 5.1 Dolby Digital
If we do happen to make contact, I expect nothing less than gratuitous violence from the lot of ya. Because we're firing blanks doesn't mean we have to be thinking nice thoughts. So you remember, you keep the fire down, right, you get stuck in and you kick their fucking teeth out, or I guarantee you, Joe, they will be eating your bollocks for breakfast, sunshine. - Sgt Wells (Sean Pertwee)
British Director Neil Marshall (The Descent) makes his directorial debut with Dog Soldiers. Equal doses low budget horror, adrenalin pumping action and laugh out loud comedy. The result is the most entertaining werewolf movies this side of An American Werewolf in London.
The story, a squad of hard as nails soldiers are sent into the Scottish highlands for training excercises, but are sctually live bait for a pack of lycanthropes. Moving at breakneck speed it isn’t long before obscene carnage and buckets of blood start flowing.
Trapped and running out of ammunition the survivors make there way to a cabin in the middle of the woods and attempt to hold off impending disembowelment.
“Know what this reminds me of? Rourke's Drift. 100 men of Harlech, making a desperate stand against 10,000 Zulu warriors. Outnumbered, surrounded, staring death in the face and not flinching for a moment. Balls of British steel.”
John Doe says:(8/10)
The film already has a cult following and I am definitely part of it. I went back to the cinema several times for this one. The characters are well drawn and the dangerous atmosphere is ever present.
Many critics have compared the feel of this film to James Cameron’s Aliens, it’s a testosterone fuelled action/horror of a high quality and knows the genre perfectly. It may not be original, it respectfully borrows and homage’s horror greats of the past, (Eg: Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead.) but it follows through on its promises.
All the actors have a ball with their characters, and especially enjoy delivering their lines. Urgent cinematography and a less is more philosophy to the monsters maintains the tension.
The star of the film really is the witty, self aware script. Sure you will see the twists coming, but you wont have time to dwell on it thanks to fistfuls of gritted teeth tough guy dialogue and amusing pop culture humour.
“We are now up against live, hostile targets. So, if Little Red Riding Hood should show up with a bazooka and a bad attitude, I expect you to chin the bitch.”
Delivering gore, giggles and characters to cheer for, Dog Soldiers is not for the squeamish. It’s all about entertainment, don’t look for a deeper meaning just enjoy the ride.
The DVD:
The extras on this disc are just as fun. The drunken Director and cast commentary will have you smiling throughout with fun anecdotes and the boys being boys. There are deleted scenes with a commentary, a short but sweet making of feature and interviews with the cast. Best of all is the inclusion of Combat, a Neil Marshall short film.
Starring: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham
If we do happen to make contact, I expect nothing less than gratuitous violence from the lot of ya. Because we're firing blanks doesn't mean we have to be thinking nice thoughts. So you remember, you keep the fire down, right, you get stuck in and you kick their fucking teeth out, or I guarantee you, Joe, they will be eating your bollocks for breakfast, sunshine. - Sgt Wells (Sean Pertwee)
British Director Neil Marshall (The Descent) makes his directorial debut with Dog Soldiers. Equal doses low budget horror, adrenalin pumping action and laugh out loud comedy. The result is the most entertaining werewolf movies this side of An American Werewolf in London.
The story, a squad of hard as nails soldiers are sent into the Scottish highlands for training excercises, but are sctually live bait for a pack of lycanthropes. Moving at breakneck speed it isn’t long before obscene carnage and buckets of blood start flowing.
Trapped and running out of ammunition the survivors make there way to a cabin in the middle of the woods and attempt to hold off impending disembowelment.
John Doe says:(8/10)
The film already has a cult following and I am definitely part of it. I went back to the cinema several times for this one. The characters are well drawn and the dangerous atmosphere is ever present.
Many critics have compared the feel of this film to James Cameron’s Aliens, it’s a testosterone fuelled action/horror of a high quality and knows the genre perfectly. It may not be original, it respectfully borrows and homage’s horror greats of the past, (Eg: Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead.) but it follows through on its promises.
All the actors have a ball with their characters, and especially enjoy delivering their lines. Urgent cinematography and a less is more philosophy to the monsters maintains the tension.
The star of the film really is the witty, self aware script. Sure you will see the twists coming, but you wont have time to dwell on it thanks to fistfuls of gritted teeth tough guy dialogue and amusing pop culture humour.
“We are now up against live, hostile targets. So, if Little Red Riding Hood should show up with a bazooka and a bad attitude, I expect you to chin the bitch.”
Delivering gore, giggles and characters to cheer for, Dog Soldiers is not for the squeamish. It’s all about entertainment, don’t look for a deeper meaning just enjoy the ride.
The DVD:
The extras on this disc are just as fun. The drunken Director and cast commentary will have you smiling throughout with fun anecdotes and the boys being boys. There are deleted scenes with a commentary, a short but sweet making of feature and interviews with the cast. Best of all is the inclusion of Combat, a Neil Marshall short film.
Come here and i am gunna kick your ass puppy.
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Keep an eye out for Neil Marshal's second film The Descent. Its an edge of your seat experience that comes to Australian Cinemas next month. Ive got the UK DVD and it really creeped me out.
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I just wanted to give Pertwee a big up because his dad was in Doctor Who.
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