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Behind Enemy Lines 2: Desert Fox (2009)

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Exciting action, solid cast, stellar production values and a good story help make this Dolph Lundgren's most underrated flick.

Men of War is a 1994 action film directed by Perry Lang, written by John Sayles, and revised by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris. It stars Dolph Lundgren as Nick Gunar, a former Special Ops soldier who leads a group of mercenaries to a treasure island in the South China Sea.

Dolph Lundgren as Nick Gunar
Charlotte Lewis as Loki
B. D. Wong as Po
Anthony Denison as Jimmy G
Tim Guinee as Ocker
Don Harvey as Nolan
Tom Lister, Jr. as Blades
Tom Wright as Jamaal
Catherine Bell as Grace Lashield
Trevor Goddard as Keefer
Kevin Tighe as Colonel Merrick
Thomas Gibson as Warren
Perry Lang as Lyle

The film was based on an original screenplay by John Sayles called A Safe Place, written in the early 1980s for producer Stan Rogow.

Sayles' original idea for the plot involved a mercenary who rethinks his life when he comes upon a tribe of pacifists. Rewrites from Reiff and Voris added more testosterone-fueled action.

According to Voris:

It was actually an old Sayles script that some producers bought and wanted to make for action star Dolph Lundgren! The Sayles script needed to be brought up to date a little, more action scenes added and, most importantly, had to be made into an ensemble movie because the producers were worried that Dolph just couldn't carry the movie that John Sayles originally wrote. And that an audience wouldn't sit still to watch Lundgren tackle all those great John Sayles monologues. ... We were actually pretty deferential to Sayles' original script and the finished movie is actually quite a good little action flick. ... Probably the only time we'll ever get a chance to rewrite John Sayles.

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