The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese (1978) – If you can somehow make it past the title song, you’ll find a fun, slightly thoughtful, slightly dumb, and fairly hammy film with an all-star cast of aging badass mercenaries (it’s lacking only Michael Caine in the Jason Statham role); it’s got some nice character development, but it’s also trying a little too obviously and too preachily not to be racist, which is kind of odd given how steeped in colonialism it is (let’s not even talk about the cartoony gay character). 6