War Pigs

Sweden is known for many things, the tasty food, they beautiful landscapes, the friendly people, and so many great music legends have created so many great songs. We are also mostly known for IKEA, Smörgåsbord, Surströmming, and Nalle Knutssons classic decision, to try and adopt a married 30 year old indian man ( this is one of the greatest moments in swedish history ).

But let´s be honest here, there is one thing that every single swede worldwide is even more proud of when they think of Sweden.

All over Sweden we talk about him, like he is bigger than Jesus and Allah ( and he is for us ).

He is the one, and only.....Dolph Lundgren.

Dolph always make every swedish person feel happy, he is the biggest inspiration to every single person in this country. Dolph is simply the only answer you need, for eternal happiness. Someday there will be a statue made here in Sweden, so every visitor from the whole world can feel why we are so proud of Sweden.

As an actor Dolph have made so many action films, that you always love his performances. He can never be bad, because he is Dolph. Most of you must have seen his classics Rocky 4, Universal Soldier, Red Scorpion, The Punisher, Masters Of The Universe and many more. He still continue to make action films, and one of my personal favourites is called Universal Soldier - Day Of Reckoning. The combination of Scott Adkins, Dolph Lundgren and Jean - Claude Van Damme in the same film, kicking a lot of ass, was so beautiful i could almost cry. I also enjoyed him in Skin Trade, one of his best action films in many years. Recently i read that he is the lead actor of Kindergarten Cop 2, the sequel to the Schwarzenegger classic film. That sounds very interesting indeed. War Pigs is a new film, with the interesting cast of Dolph Lundgren, Luke Goss and Mickey Rourke, set in the 1940´s. I can not remember that i have ever seen Dolph do anything as this before, or even Luke Goss try this genre before. With the director of the film Saints and Soldiers, known as Ryan Little, and a classic cast of action film stars, is War Pigs a nice surprise, or just another straight to dvd release that wont be remembered ?

Captain Jack Wosick ( Luke Goss ) survived from his latest mission. At base camp, Major A.J. Redding ( Mickey Rourke ) is ready to send Jack on his next mission, together with Captain Hans Picault ( Dolph Lundgren ). They are ordered to train an army of young soldiers, to be prepared to battle against nazis behind enemy lines. They get the nickname War Pigs, while the training begins. Jack and Hans try to make the soldiers learn how to survive out in the battleground. Even how good they can become, no one can hide from the fact that the germans are planning their next attack.

I know that Dolph Lundgren have planned to direct an historical film set in Scandinavia in the future, because he wants to try some new ground. War Pigs may be an war action film, but you do get to see him do a different character. This is more of a serious role for him, where you can at least feel that it feels more realistic than many of his other action films. The combination of Luke Goss and Mickey Rourke in the cast is also a nice suprise. There are plenty films made to tell different stories about the second world war against the nazis, and there are many great releases that deserves to be seen. War Pigs is a much smaller film, released straight to dvd. Sometimes this is a sign for lower quality, but War Pigs is actually not bad at all. There is more dialogue here than any of the latest films i have seen with Dolph, and the action scenes are ok. If you were hoping to see kicking and fighting, this is not the film you were hoping for. This might be the most serious film i have seen Dolph do so far in his movie career. Luke Goss in the lead role fits right in, especially in the scenes with Dolph, they are the biggest reason why this film turns out alright. Mickey Rourke wears a cowboy hat ( again ), even though i never really seen this before in a film set at World War II. Either way, he is alright. Director Ryan Little is actually the director of the 2003 film called Saints And Soldiers. Also a war movie, also taking place at World War II , that turned out to be surprisngly good at the release that year. I remember calling it one of the better straight to dvd releases, since director Ryan Little proved you can make a good war film on a limited budget. He have directed 2 more films, a prequel to Saints And Soldiers and a sequel also. I have not seen any of them yet, but i might take the time to do so. His latest film War Pigs is not as good as the first Saints And Soldiers film, but still proves himself to be a director who likes to tell stories on a limited budget. One of the problems with War Pigs, is that the story is not really interesting. Since this is set in World War II, it should have plenty of interesting turns into the war, but unfortunately not. So instead, what makes War Pigs good enough to watch, is the actors, and their characters. Especially hearing Dolph speaking a mix of french and english, a fun combination. War Pigs is not ground breaking in the war genre of films, but i do enjoy the thought of action stars trying a much more serious project. I suggest you rent it, and give it a try. Especially if you want to hear Dolph speaking french, no one is better at french than Dolph, you heard me french people ?

Rating: DDD