Soldiers of Fortune (film)

Soldiers of Fortune is a 2012 American action film starring Christian Slater, Dominic Monaghan, Sean Bean, James Cromwell and Ving Rhames.

Four years later, both McCenzie and Reed have been dishonourably discharged from the army due to the influence of Mason, and are running a struggling private security firm back in the USA. When McCenzie attends a biker gangrun poker tournament to barter for a loan to keep the pair financially stable, he witnesses several other players draw guns on the dealer, before it is revealed that the entire game was simply set up as a test for him, to see whether he has retained his combat skill. When he is offered a wellpaid job aiding freedom fighters on a tiny, dictatorcontrolled European island he initially turns the offer down, but when it is explained to him that Mason is on the island as head of the dictators brutal military, he changes his mind and he and Reed leave for Europe.On arriving at a base camp close to the island, the full extent of his job is finally explained to him. The freedom fighters are poorlyfunded, and thus are sourcing money via war tourism, inviting wealthy foreigners to join their ranks for the thrills and experience. To prevent them from risk of death, however, McCenzie and Reed have been drafted in to act as their tour guides and body guards, offering them a realistic experience of army life while ensuring they stay out of harms way. Their five charges Roman St John, Sam Haussmann, Grimaud Tourneur, Tommy Sin and Charles Herbert Vanderbeer are for the most part all selfmade millionaires who each believe themselves in one way or another to be up to the task of professional soldiery. As the two Captains give them a whistlestop training, the recruits with the notable exception of St John Sean Bean all reveal themselves to be hopeless, though they do all gain a basic understanding of weaponry. ........

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