A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary. With a film with this kind of cast and straight to dvd? I was for sure not expecting Saving Private Ryan or something but unfortunately i wasn't expecting anything that awful either. The film takes place in 1944 right? But it hardly looks like 44 to be honest it actually looks like people doing a parody of a war movie. The acting wasn't anything great either and Mickey Rourke? I have no idea what the heck he was really doing in here. (0/10)

This looks like it was choreographed by a group of children playing war games. Mickey Rourke continues his tradition of signing on to movies that offer minimal screen time in return for a wage, whereby he arrives on set, appears to completely disregard any kind of script or appearance guidelines and carries on like a lunatic. In this case he's a cowboy hat wearing, long haired Colonel or something. It would be more convincing if he was a patient in a psych ward. The movie is just plain bad It's how I picture the cinematic endeavours of a group of war history buffs.

The chief opportunity to create dramatic tension was lost at the beginning when the drama of the forging of the asinine combat orders and the decision to follow them was left to be told in a few lines of dialogue. Hence, we are left with no reason to care about the rest of the story nor of the men. The idea of conducting extreme physical training under harsh conditions for combat hardened infantrymen is simply silly: the dialogue made it clear that these men knew combat. I stopped watching at that point.

"Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed" director Ryan Little has made his fourth World War II combat film with "War Pigs," but it doesn't surpass his earlier "Saints and Soldiers: The Void." Basically, Little and scenarist Steven Luke, working from a story by Andrew Kightlinger and Adam Emerson, have appropriated two of the biggest World War II studio releases with one from the 1970s. "War Pigs" opens with our hero, Captain Jack Wosick (Luke Goss of "Blade II"), leading Sergeant McGreevy (Chuck Liddell of "Kick Ass 2" and his men into a debacle. All of his men die, but he survives. Wosick believes his orders were screwed up. Officially disgraced, Wosick suffers the loss of a bar until Major A.J. Redding (Mickey Rourke of "The Expendables") shows up and offers Wosick the chance to redeem himself. The plot about the captain leading his men into disaster is reminiscent of Clint Eastwood's officer in "Kelly's Heroes" who had lost this bars because he led the wrong attack. Major Redding wants Wosick to take a squad of G.I.s behind enemy lines to obtain information about a long-range German artillery piece that has the potential to wreck deadly havoc onto Allied lines. Wosick getting stuck with a group of misfits recalls "The Dirty Dozen," and he has to whip these guys into shape for the mission. Finally, because they are checking out the big German gun and ultimately wind up destroying it, "War Pigs" evokes memories of the Gregory Peck movie "The Guns of Navarone. At least, Little and his writers draw from the best Twentieth Century combat films about World War II. Little and company add a French Foreign Legion officer to diversify the heroic line-up, and Dolph Lundgren has his own reasons for hating the Nazis as Captain Hans Picault. Most of the combat occurs in the first part of "War Pigs" and in the last half of the movie. The middle of the movie concerns the efforts of Lieutenant Wosick and Picault as they get their misfits in shape for their objective. Wosick goes head-to-head with his new non-com, Sergeant August Chambers (Noah Segan of "Looper"), who abhors officers as much as orders. Eventually, they reconcile themselves to each other, and our heroes embark on their mission. The big problem with "War Pigs" is they spend a lot of time talking before they finally swing into action. During their first encounter with the enemy, Wosick is knocked unconscious when a Nazi potato masher grenade lands nearby, and the Germans capture not only Chambers but also Preacher (Stephen Luke), while Picault and his men stop a Nazi vehicle and kill all the soldiers. Picault has no choice in the matter when a German tank officer spots their hidden American jeep. Meantime, the German patrol that surprised Wosick takes their two prisoners to their headquarters where the huge artillery piece is situated. The interrogation that follows gets pretty rough, but the Americans survive this encounter. Although they have only been ordered to draw a sketch of the gun, Wosick changes their orders. Picault and his men masquerade as Germans and Wosick joins them in a Nazi uniform. Aside from too much talking, the other problem with "War Pigs" is that none of our heroes dies during their foray against the enemy. Everything is too good to be true. Indeed, Picault is wounded, but he survives. Significantly, Picault has to fire only one tank shell to destroy the huge gun. "War Pigs" qualifies as a routine World War II movie with a happy ending. In a sense, "War Pigs" hearkens back to the propaganda combat epics made during World War II that depicted Americans as indestructible. Mickey Rourke makes a strange Major with a Stetson. The Utah scenery effectively substitutes for Europe.