Review – The Wild Geese

I loved this movie when I was a kid. Now it seems more to me like a silly, over-sentimental view of who mercenaries are and what they do for a living. Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Roger Moore slum (well, okay maybe it isn’t so much slumming for Moore) as out-of-work ex-soldiers hired to free a political prisoner from the clutches of an African dictator. The morality compass points just about every possible direction as the story plays out. But if you can put your indignation on hold, there’s some moderately entertaining action sandwiched between the simple-minded plot developments. Mildly amusing