Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90113 in DVD
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Running time: 125 minutes

Customer Reviews

Who Dares Wins!
From the deserts of Africa to Iraq, the Special Air Service Regiment of the Brish Army is renowned for their derring-do and never say die attitude. This movie is a dramatization and tribute to the courageous men of the SAS and was probably motivated by the public interest after the real life Iranian Embassy seige in London. Lewis Collins who plays Capt Peter Skellern SAS goes undercover for MI5 the Security Service to infiltrate a violent anti-war "ban the bomb" group planning a big terrorist operation. He becomes intimate with the group's highly sexed but really ugly looking leader. In the final climatic scene, you go into the skin of an SAS Counter Revolutionary Warfare black clad trooper as he takes out the terrorists in the US Ambassador's residence. The action sequences are authentic especially as the technical advisors were serving members of the ultra secretive SAS. The speed of the action sequences are breathtaking especially the "double taps" or 2 shots to the brain technique used by the SAS CRW troopers. Note too the quick entry techniques used like the shooting out of the door hinges by 12 gauge combat shotguns. The techno music is very excitiing and inspiring too. The action movie buff will definitely enjoy this movie. When I first saw this movie in 1982 in England, the Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament supporters actually protested outside the cinema! Dr. Michael Lim The Travelling Gourmet.

something to think about
This movie, loosely based on how the SAS rescued the hostages in the Iranian Embassy in 1980, is believable and not so believable.

The action is believable; the demands of the terrorists(that the UK nuke Scotland) I did not find terribly believable.

However, there are two parts in this action-packed movie that are truly food for thought. The first is the conversation between the British Foreign Secretary and the terrorist leader. He asks her if she thinks she can achieve a peaceful or even a better world by murdering all the hostages. In other words, aren't her means also her ends? She tries to argue that but in the end concedes his point to a fellow terrorist.

And the other part was the very end. That's when the people who orchestrated the whole thing, who paid for all those deaths, cheerfully went off to dinner at some ritzy London restaurant assuring each other that there is always a next time.

Indeed there is.

Need it on DVD
This movie was my first exposure to the SAS and anti-terrorist techniques. While fiction, it is based on the Iranian Embassy siege of the early 80's. It features a decent story, great actors, and cool spy stuff. If your a McNab or Ryan fan you'll like this flick.