• Privacy policy
  • T&C’s
  • About Us
    • FAQ
    • Meet the Team
  • Contact us
TLE ONLINE SHOP!
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Opinion
  • Elevenses
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
  • Food
    • All Food
    • Recipes
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
  • JOBS
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
SUPPORT THE LONDON ECONOMIC
NEWSLETTER
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Opinion
  • Elevenses
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
  • Food
    • All Food
    • Recipes
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
  • JOBS
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
No Result
View All Result
Home Film

Film Review: Renegades

You can almost hear the faint chorus of “America, fuck yeah!” in the background of Steven Quale’s Bosnia-set, Navy SEALs action-adventure romp. Penned (in part) by Luc Besson, Renegades is a mash-up of Team America and Three Kings without any of the cynicism or irony, and played with the same straight faced, “America the Great” […]

Mike McNulty by Mike McNulty
2018-01-04 08:00
in Film, Film Reviews
FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailWhatsapp

You can almost hear the faint chorus of “America, fuck yeah!” in the background of Steven Quale’s Bosnia-set, Navy SEALs action-adventure romp. Penned (in part) by Luc Besson, Renegades is a mash-up of Team America and Three Kings without any of the cynicism or irony, and played with the same straight faced, “America the Great” determination of Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper.

A hardened group of all-American frogmen in Sarajevo, during the Bosnian War, learn from a local barmaid, Lara (Sylvia Hoeks), that French gold reserves, stolen by Nazis during the Second World War, lie sunken at the bottom of a local lake. The team cut a deal, agreeing to retrieve the gold bars, valued at 300 million dollars, from the depths of their murky waters and divide the take evenly, 50-50. Lara plans to use this money to help get Bosnia on its feet and the guys to buy… jet skis, maybe. But, to complicate matters, the men have ruffled the feathers of local warlord Petrovic (Clemens Schick), who has made it his mission to destroy them.

https://youtu.be/bL1N9ogsXEk

It’s gung-ho, exposition heavy fare, complete with helicopters, tanks, explosions and agonisingly cringe-worthy dialogue, all of which may have been forgivable if the moral compass of Renegades wasn’t so completely warped. The film is tone deaf, making light of a serious conflict that involved genocide. It is insidiously manipulative, playing into both sides of the American ethos, and painting them in the poisonously bright colours of the stars and stripes. Renegades plays to the tune of:

“These good ol’ American boys have found an opportunity to help them poor folk down Bosnia way, now ain’t that good of em’ and well, why not keep a little of that gold, after all, you make your own opportunity.”

The thin veil of wholesome, American nobility is so transparent you can see the fat, sweaty body of self-interest rolling around on a bed of money and self-satisfaction behind it. The end is so grossly predictable that you need not be told to pack a sick bucket and tic-tacs to drown out the bitter taste it will leave in your mouth.

RELATED
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/film/film-review-jupiters-moon/03/01/

RelatedPosts

Final Thoughts on Cannes 2022

Cannes 2022 Review: Tori and Lokita

Cannes 2022 Review: Pacifiction

Cannes 2022 Review: Elvis

Please login to join discussion

Subscribe to our Newsletter

View our  Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

Trending on TLE

  • All
  • trending
Abdollah

‘Rescue us’: Afghan teacher begs UK to help him escape Taliban

CHOMSKY: “If Corbyn had been elected, Britain would be pursuing a much more sane course”

What If We Got Rid Of Prisons?

More from TLE

Islington Councillor Received Death Threats From Drug Dealers Over Closure of Fabric

Pair released under investigation over manslaughter of 3yo girl thrown to death from trampoline

Alex Lodge: Weekly Report Vol. 34

Police arrested suspect more than five years after hammer horror killing dubbed a real ‘Midsomer murder’

Watch – Inside Saudi Arabia: Butchery, Slavery & History of Revolt

Watch – Oh dear! Shocking Mugshot of racist Trump fan who abused Muslim family

Conservative zero tariffs plan will ‘tear heart out of UK manufacturing’

Johnson forced to apologise after fluffing North East lockdown lines

‘Waste’: Fisherman says exporting to China is ‘cheaper and easier’ than to France post-Brexit

Record year for family-financed property predicted in 2016

JOBS

FIND MORE JOBS

About Us

TheLondonEconomic.com – Open, accessible and accountable news, sport, culture and lifestyle.

Read more

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.




No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Food
  • Travel
  • JOBS
  • More…
    • Elevenses
    • Opinion
    • Property
    • Tech & Auto
  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Privacy policy
  • Contact us

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.