a5c7b9f00b During World War I, a British aristocrat, an American entrepreneur, and the latter&#39;s attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battlecruiser, which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. Just prior to World War One the hard drinking sharpshooting, Irish American Colonel Flynn O&#39;Flynn, uses British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith to help poach ivory from German controlled territory in East Africa, putting them at odds with Herman Fleischer, the local German Provincial Commander. When Sebastian is infected with malaria he is nursed back to health by Flynn&#39;s daughter Rosa, they fall in love and marry. Not long after Britain declares war on Germany and they are drawn into the conflict, ultimately making a daring attack on the German armored cruiser SMS Blücherit undergoes repairs in a local estuary. When you look at this movie it&#39;s concept and settings you should think that it will turn out to be one of the most entertaining things ever. It really has all of the right ingredients in it to make a good, spectacular and enjoyable movie out of but in fact I was more annoyed by this movie than entertained.<br/><br/>Problem with this movie is that it&#39;s a very messy one story-wise. I&#39;m sorry, I just couldn&#39;t discover a clear main plot-line in this and I tried really hard to because I really wanted to like watching this film. Half of the time I couldn&#39;t even tell what was going on, just because I couldn&#39;t care about any of it. I just never got into this movie while watching.<br/><br/>Anothing thing that this movie suffers heavily from is that it doesn&#39;t seem to able to make up its mind what it is trying to be. At times the movie feels like a goofy comedy, while at others it&#39;s obviously trying to be a more straight-forward adventure/action movie. Both of these approaches don&#39;t exactly strengthen one another. Perhaps this is mostly due to the James Bond background of director Peter R. Hunt. He has worked on many different James Bond movies, in many different ways, throughout the decades. James Bond movies, especially the older ones, also are the type of movies that the one moment doesn&#39;t take itself very seriously, while at the other it is still trying to be a good and clever spy thriller/action flick. This approach works for most of the James Bond movies and make them real fun to watch but this approach completely falls flat for &quot;Shout at the Devil&quot;. <br/><br/>And speaking of James Bond, the main character in this movie is being played by Roger Moore, which is not a coincidence of course. And I&#39;m sorry but whenever I see Roger Moore in an &#39;70&#39;s or &#39;80&#39;s movie I can&#39;t see himanyone else than James Bond. It doesn&#39;t help much that Moore hasn&#39;t tried to play many different sort of roles throughout his career and he just doesn&#39;t seem to have a very wide rangean actor. Luckily the movie also has Lee Marvin in it, who is much better and also way more fun to watch.<br/><br/>Not halfgood or entertainingI was hoping and expecting it to be.<br/><br/>5/10<br/><br/>http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/ SHOUT AT THE DEVIL is the splendid adaptation of the splendid Wilbur Smith novel about a British gent and an American poacher who take on the might of the German Empire in Africa in the First World War. As expected given the source material, it&#39;s an exotic and action-packed adventure yarn, delightfully old fashioned with it.<br/><br/>The film wins plenty of kudos for the central pairing of Roger Moore and Lee Marvin, two larger-than-life actors who make for a great combination. Moore plays a slightly more serious riff on his usual persona, while Marvin is all swagger and drunken behaviour. The film wisely uses their potential for comedy by pairing them in lots of hilarious scenes, not least the never-ending fist fight.<br/><br/>Of course, there&#39;s a serious story buried in here too, along with one or two devastating plot twists that only Smith could have come up with. Reinhard Kolldehoff is a thoroughly despicable villain, both pompous and cruel, and the countdown-timer denouement isexcitingit was when I read the book years ago.<br/><br/>If you like films that celebrate good, old-fashioned derring do, Dutch courage and thoroughly caddish behaviour, then you&#39;ll be sure to enjoy this one too.
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