Diamond Dogs (film)
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German title | Diamond Dogs |
Original title | Diamond Dogs |
Country of production | Canada , China , USA |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2007 |
length | 90 minutes |
Age rating | FSK no youth approval |
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Director |
Shimon Dotan (as Samuel Dolhasca ) Dolph Lundgren |
script |
Léopold St. Pierre (as Leo St. Pierre ) |
production | Shimon Dotan Louis Y. Liu |
music | Larry Cohen |
camera | Xiaobing Rao |
cut | Gaétan Huot |
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Diamond Dogs is a 2007 Sino-Canadian B - action film directed by Shimon Dotan and Dolph Lundgren .
action
The highly decorated US-American ex- captain of the Green Berets Xander Ronson, who has been fleeing from his past for six years in Inner Mongolia and runs the run-down security company Ronson Security , fights illegal street fights in a provincial town for a living. With the help of the prize money and previously placed bets on the brutal duels, the drinking champion tries to settle his debts of around 20,000 US dollars . One day he is arrested and given four weeks to settle his outstanding debts, otherwise he faces a long prison term.
The British businessman Chambers made his financial difficulties his own, and made him a lucrative offer for a multi-day expedition to recover a precious relic , a thangka . Unscrupulous criminals soon became interested in the antique diamond- studded Buddhist tapestry, which was said to have supernatural powers. A Chinese archeology professor joins the expedition team around Ronson, Chambers, his attractive stepdaughter Anika and some recruited followers.
On the way to the expedition's destination, the association fends off a bandit attack, as well as another attack by Zhukov's men on their night camp in order to examine a burial chamber the next day . With a little effort, they finally get the relic that is supposed to be a curse, but trigger a mechanism that separates Ronson from the rest of the team. Against Anika's will, Chambers flees to base camp, where Zhukov and his mercenaries are waiting for him; the financier leaves Ronson indifferent to his fate. However, he manages to free himself and to approach the camp again to protect "his" expedition members. After a firefight with several dead, the remaining treasure hunters flee from Zhukov over rough terrain to a remote Buddhist temple . During their journey, they are attacked again by Zhukov, whose henchmen kill the professor and Chambers.
At the end of the film, Ronson and Anika enter the large temple complex, a little later the armed mercenary army, and it comes to a real showdown. Ronson almost single-handedly overpowers the attackers, while Anika, who rushes to his aid, is fatally injured. In a duel, he also kills Zhukov and, in one of the last takes of the film, hands the thangka over to three monks .
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was an "average action film with (authentic) folkloric travel impressions as a platform for a Scandinavian whipping star."
Web links
- Diamond Dogs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Diamond Dogs in the online movie database