What a beautiful movie!

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Woohoo! Another Antonio Margheriti jungle actioner, this one starring Lewis Collins (from Commando Leopard!) and Klaus Kinski (from Commando Leopard!) and Lee Van Cleef (from Death Rides a Horse etc) and Ernest Borgnine (from also good eighties action film Skeleton Coast) and Mimsy Farmer (from the Black Cat, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, that Pink Floyd film and other stuff). I'm knackered from thinking of all those films those folks were in. Goodnight! This one isn't as good as Margheriti's The Last Hunter, but then I'm hard pressed to think of a better action film than that, but it's on a par with Commando Leopard, suffering slightly from the lack of John Stiener being a Glaswegian, but then helped by a depressingly old looking Lee Van Cleef as a helicopter pilot and helped immensely by eternally middle aged and jolly Ernest Borgnine. These guys are all on hand to help out Lewis Collins, a soldier heading for the jungle of some country I couldn't quite figure out in order to destroy drug factories! Collins and Cleef and a few other jungle warfare guys head off for the jungle and start blowing the absolute crap out of everything, picking up a junky Mimsy Farmer on the way. She's doesn't have too much to do in this one I'm afraid, but then again it's all about the action and less about the acting, so let's get to the bit where I mention the helicopter with the flamethrower attached.Near the end the get double crossed by either Borgnine or Kinski (you guess which one) and can only escape by wasting scores of bad guys and countryside with a flame thrower attached to a helicopter. Margheriti gets to break out his famous miniature sets at this point (and also during a really daft car chase near the start) but you can't mark the guy down for effort.This is yet another impossible-not-to-enjoy Italian trash film made by one of Taratino's heroes. I wonder why he never takes the hint and makes a decent action film with barely any dialogue?

Antonio Margheriti (that's the linguine Anthony Dawson) directs this in-name only second sequel to "The Wild Geese", with ex-Professionals' Lewis Collins as the indomitable Commander Robin Wesley (a very masculine sounding name befitting the tough guy profile), and his band of rag-tag mercenaries as they venture into the jungles of Borneo or thereabouts for a supposedly benign mission to bust an opium operation. But the evil, double crossing Charleton (crazy-eyed Kinski) is playing both sides, and the group find themselves taking refuge in a mission with language assistance from expatriate American (Farmer) as they search for an escape route.Glorious colour tones, stylish costumes and jazzy synthesisers give this jungle war opus the Armani makeover that was en vogue at the time. Collins' suave sophistication and stiff upper lip as he delivers painfully awkward dialogue is so artificial, it's cringe worthy. Ernest Borgnine looks sedated in his brief cameo, while Kinski, conversely, is so over the top, he's hilarious. Only Van Cleef offers some restraint, but he's a passenger. The set designers, special effects crew and pyrotechnic personnel showed flair with their multitude of explosions, and the bodies blown apart in gory detail give it that Euro-trash touch you've come to expect.But while the action sequences are fluent and well constructed, and the general gist of the film is easy to follow, there's still an awful lot of stilted dialogue and overly intense acting. Perhaps as a box set with its younger siblings, this could be a cool if somewhat hokey trilogy. Nice try, but in spite of Collins' penchant for smoking stogies, no cigar.

This action-packed picture concerns upon a troop of commandos-for-hire(Lewis Collins, Manfred Lehmann)is assigned by a businessman as financial backers and the Drug Enforcement Administration DEA(in charge of a histrionic Ernest Borgnine) to obliterate Golden Triangle between Laos , Cambodia and Thailand. The commando is led by captain Wesley, a tough, two-fisted mercenary . He contacts an inmate, expert on helicopters(Lee Van Cleef in similar role to Snake-Kurt Russell in rescue in N.Y). The adventure starts when the veteran band of mercenaries land deep inside the jungle to destroy opium traffic and smuggling commanded by General Khan. Another mercenary( Klaus Kinski)as back-up , in case they run into problems. They help out the jungle's inhabitants along with a kidnapped reporter(Mimsy Farmer). The mission meets an unexpected turns and twists when they're betrayed. Meanwhile they find a Catholic priest(Alan Collins or Luciano Pigozzi ,the Italian Peter Lorre)ruling a mission in middle of jungle. The jungle countrymen are submitted to drug-lords and the Reds Jemeres . This fast-paced film packs adventures, large-scale blow-up,routine plot, and lots of action for the most part. Cheesy scenes about a car races throughout a tunnel under construction with embarrassing scale models such the director previously made in his film ¨Car crash(1980)¨, but contains a better scenario on the bridge explosions and over the burning installations with helicopter scenes. Cinematography is quite nicely , capturing the atmosphere of everywhere, from Hong Kong's skyscrapers to a Thailand jungle pretty cool, furthermore some stirring images filmed with camera above the shoulder. Lousy musical score by means of synthesizer by Nemec and isn't composed by Ennio Morricone. The film is produced in middling budget by Erwin C Dietrich , habitual director and producer of soft-cores and Jesus Franco's usual financier.The film was made in the wake of ¨Wild Geese¨(Andrew McLagen with Burton, Moore and Richard Harris) and Wild Geese II(Peter Hunt with Scott Glenn, Edward Fox, Barbara Carrera)which depended in their all star cast. And belongs a trilogy directed by Anthony M Dawson(Margheriti) formed by ¨Commando Leopard(1985)¨ and ¨Der Commander(1988)¨ repeating similar actors, Collins, Kinski, and Manfred Lemann, technicians and screenwriter, Tito Carpi.These jungle-setting exploitation films from the 80s will like to action lovers and euro-trash enthusiastic.

"Horror Castle" director Antonio Margheriti's "Code Name: Wild Geese" with Lewis Collins and Lee Van Cleef qualifies as an explosive, action-packed, but formulaic military actioneer about hard-nosed mercenaries dispatched with the blessings of the DEA to destroy an evil Asian general's opium factory in the Golden Triangle. Predictably, complications arise, and everybody finds themselves in for a considerably more difficult mission than they were prepared for from the outset. Although it is not related to the 1978 Richard Burton epic "The Wild Geese" or its tardy sequel "Wild Geese II," the Tito ("Tentacles") Capri, Gianfranco ("The Last Hunter") Couyoumdjian, and Michael Lester screenplay clearly borrows elements from the two earlier films, but rearranges them so there are enough differences. The rugged cast includes Ernst Borgnine, Klaus Kinski, Mimsy Farmer, Manfred Lehmann, and Frank Glaubrecht. Margheriti and cinematographer Peter Baumgartner lensed this actioneer on location in Hong Kong and lush jungles of the Philippines. Some of the action scenes, such as a fast-paced car chase through a tunnel under construction and most of the explosions that occur in long shot are done with cost-saving miniatures, as Margheriti did with his Karen Black & Lee Major's thriller "Killer Fish." "Code Name: Wild Geese" is nothing memorable, but it is done with a lot of savvy and Kinski's fake elite British accent make it worthwhile, especially if you're in the mood for a shoot'em up with no shortage of explosions and a high body count. One of the last scene when our hero attaches a flamethrower to a helicopter skid and burns up everything and everybody at an opium plant gives it an edge.Captain Robin Wesley (Lewis Collins of "The Final Option") is a top-notch mercenary who trains his men under conditions as close to actual combat as he can. Obviously, Margheriti and his scenarists pilfered the first scene from the Andrew V. McLaglen thriller "ffolks" with Roger Moore whose title character keeps his mercenaries on their toes with similar exercises. Wesley is called in by his employer, Baldwin (Wolfgang Pampel) to blow the smithereens out of a opium factory run by a ruthless, bald-headed warlord. Fletcher (Ernst Borgnine of "Marty") represents the DEA, and Charlton (Klaus Kinski of "Nosferatu") hangs around as back-up in case Wesley and his men run into trouble. Before the mission begins, Wesley loses his helicopter pilot so he strikes a bargain with the authorities to release Travis (Lee Van Cleef of "For a Few Dollars More") to fly for him. Travis is an expert chopper pilot who has flown in five wars but wound up in prison for smuggling.Initially, everything goes according to plans and our heroes wipe out the opium factory. During the heated combat, Travis leaves his post in the helicopter to help the mercenaries and an adversary smashes the fuel tank, sets the chopper afire, and it blows up. Wesley and company take some casualties, but now they have to march out. The warlord learns about this debacle and sends an army out to make an example of our death-defying heroes. The local guerrillas liberate a bamboo prison nearby and rescue Katy Robson (Mimsy Farmer) who has been held hostage and shot up repeatedly with heroin. They take her with them. Wesley and his men tromp through the jungle and find a priest (Peter Lorre look-alike Luciano Pigozzi of "Baron Blood") running a mission. At this point, our heroes learn that there is a second opium factory and a train that delivers the narcotics. While they are away blowing up the train when it crosses a bridge, the warlord's army storms the mission, kills everyone, and crucifies the priest. Eventually, back at mission headquarters, Fletcher and Charlton figure that no news is good news and decide that our heroes must have lost their helicopter. Charlton arranges for back-up and leads it into the jungle on a motorized riverboat with a squad of well-armed thugs. Everything changes radically when Charlton hurls himself into the fray.The leads don't have much of a chance to act because the explosions and the thrill-a-minute heroics keep them dodging bullets and shrapnel. "Code Name: Wild Geese" is the conclusion to a successful trilogy that Margheriti started with Lewis Collins and continued with "Commando Leopard" with Klaus Kinski and "The Commander" with Lee Van Cleef and Donald Pleasence.