Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.... (Full plot summary below)
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Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.
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| Washington PostGary ArnoldReisz nimbly avoids the Big Theme style, finds the pace of his material early, and sustains it brilliantly, emerging with a contemporary classic of hard-edged adventure and three superb character studies. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyAnchored by great turns from Moriarty, Nolte and Tuesday Weld, Reisz version of Stone's book is one of the most intriguing films about Vietnam, at once a tale about a paricularly divisive war and a parable about moral chaos and personal disintegration. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA complicated morality play about the Vietnam war and its lingering after-effects. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA well-assembled chase movie--a thriller, with a few existential notes left over from Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers the novel the movie's based on. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzNolte finds his groove as the anti-hero roughneck. |
| User ReviewRobert PNick Nolte in perhaps his best performance ever, as an ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran turned merchant seaman, caught in the middle of a large drug deal gone very bad. Nolte and Michael Moriarity's performances ring true; as former soldiers down on their luck try for one last, big score. A rough, in-your-face story about courage, friendship, greed, honour, and redemption. Nolte's world weary character sums up the feel of the movie in one statement.."I promised myself after I got out of the [U.S. Marine] Corps that no asshole would ever tell me what to do again." Awesome soundtrack by Creedance Clearwater Revival. One of my all-time favourites. |
| User ReviewBrandon SWow, why haven't I seen this one before! |
| User ReviewWarren WBased on the novel, Dog Soldiers, by Robert Stone. Nick Nolte steals the show. |
| User ReviewDavid SA gem of a film! This tense crime drama features Nolte on the run from a corrupt cop and a pair of criminals. The performances are pitch perfect, especially from Nolte, and the tone is gritty and realistic. In addition, the climax is very suspenseful and caps the film perfectly. It's not perfect - it drags in the opening sequences - but it is shamefully ignored and under appreciated! |
| User ReviewBrent SRobert Stone's brilliant early seventies thriller "dog soldiers" was as lean and sharp as a bayonet, a direct stab at the blood red heart of America's habit for patriotic carnage. The film version, indiscriminately retitled as "Who'll stop the rain" is just as spare and almost as sharp. The central performances by Nick Nolte and the great Tuesday Weld, (One of the few actors who raise the level of the art to that of near genius), more than hold the picture together, they keep it poised on the dangerous edge. Set in the time just after the divisive quagmire that was Vietnam, Nolte plays "Ray Hicks", a stoic, soul-searching drug dealer being pursued by some nasty men he's double crossed. Weld is the woman "along for the ride". Both are well aware the trip is doomed to failure. This self-awareness acts as a melancholy form of empowerment in the wake of what their country has been through. Modern audiences, accustomed to "Die Hards" and "Lethal weapons" may have a difficult time adjusting to both the pace and the realism of the action sequences. |
