Welcome back to Movie Recap. Today I'm gonna show you a 2015 American action war film called,
War Pigs. Spoiler’s ahead. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the video.
The movie starts with a soldier handing his office order from a battalion that he confirmed twice.
A few moments later, another battle is occurring. The Sergeant and the Lieutenant
are now in-charge but plenty of bullets are smashing the air. The sergeant says to his
lieutenant that their place is great for an ambush. Now, bombs are flying through and
chaos started again as if it’s a normal thing. They stay low and keep on going because they
need to find the flank. The Lieutenant decides to go beyond the enemy and shoot them one by one,
leaving the sergeant to stay low. They are talking now as they meet but a bullet strike through the
sergeant. The lieutenant comes in rage as he shoots the one at fault for the sergeant’s death.
Afterward, the colonel meets the lieutenant praising him because he follows orders.
He then decides to give him new orders and jobs in terms of leading men. A new captain introduces
him as he will join the lieutenant in the fight. The men that they will train are named “War Pigs.”
Formerly, men are playing outside and stealing eggs that they are now eating for breakfast.
They are doing cards and talking about their achievements. While eating on a table,
a soldier breaks their laugh saying that they have a new officer coming in.
The lieutenant and sergeant continue their way towards the War Pigs area.
Tension arises as they have a conversation because these men cannot take orders and
guidelines thoroughly, especially the team leader. After a few talks,
they will now enter the United States Army as they train for the first time.
The war pigs need to get up at 5 AM but they are still asleep so the lieutenant wakes them
up with banging metallic things. The sergeant of the team is the one who comes prepared last thus
leading to disappointment to the lieutenant. Moreover, still, tension surrounds the two
of them as they open up the conversation wherein the lieutenant made his men killed.
The soldiers are now marching for three miles double line as training for being the best squad
in the whole US Army. Even though they are about and throwing up, they continue hiking.
As they reach the end of the line, the captain attempts to give them a surprise, a huge
mountain of sand sacks. The soldiers, confusingly asking about the huge pile of weightful sacks,
the captain makes them carry those while hiking. After the tiring training for the soldiers,
they are now learning about communication during the war. Still, the team sergeant is making the
officers a laughingstock and disrespecting them. They hike through the mountains again, carrying
a big and heavy sack. Back to the lecturing, they need to have drawing skills, to describe
and record what they observe on a battlefield. They make a bowl of fruits to be in the center for
the soldiers to draw them in two minutes. However, the war pigs, especially their team leader,
seem to find it drawing and cannot see the purpose as to why they need it to draw. The lieutenant
asks for plan B. A beautiful lady comes through, removes her clothes, and lets the men draw her.
A few lines and curves later, they are out again on the mountains to search for land
mines as part of their training. Their next training is, again, carrying a heavy sack at
the top of their head while hiking. The next one is learning about a gun, the German K-98.
They are learning its parts and the whole process of assembling it, even blindfolded.
Finally, the training ends as the sun bids goodbye for the day. At the officer’s camp,
the captain notices swinging metals from the lieutenant’s pants, he says that it is from
the sergeant he served with. The captain says that, maybe, the lieutenant is keeping those to
not remind him of his failures as he said so, but instead he cannot get away from his past.
The soldiers are now outside in the night with fire as their light as they converse regarding
the lieutenant as they are starting to like him. He then, the lieutenant,
appears, sharing them a hot coffee. The next morning, training greets them as they
wake up. Their first lesson is rope climbing, it started nice but then a few climbs later,
they decided to drop mild dynamites through the river to make them climb through the rope faster.
Their next training is “The Art of the Knife” wherein they learn to defend themselves with
the pointy tool. Preacher, because he insults the captain calling him a frog,
is the first in line to do the training. He cannot defend himself while battling with the captain.
On the other hand, the lieutenant and team sergeant book down a knife fight.
August keeps on ranting about how the lieutenant will get them all killed while losing the game.
Later on, the captain and the lieutenant give them a badge that has a skull and black
as its background — it is their new insignia. The officers are announcing that they are going
behind enemy lines, giving them a hint that they are already prepared to go on a battle.
The war pigs’ team leader or sergeant assures them that he got them all in his back — they
will come back healthy and alive. The captain and the lieutenant
are now back again on their camp, taking as they will see the colonel the next day.
They are also talking about how they miss their home as well as their families.
They are now in France Alsace Lorraine Region to meet the colonel, at his office, he presents
plenty of pictures. In the image, it composes a big-built gun or canon that can kill a lot of
people. Colonel says that Hitler can be building that kind of thing — he wants them, the captain
and the lieutenant, to go and see if it is true. Later on, that day, the two leaders come into the
war pigs’ camp. They reported Hitler’s plan onto building himself a new superweapon — a
millipede gun, a pressurized canon that can fire artillery over a hundred miles.
The soldiers ask where it is exactly and they receive the answer that it is on Alsace-Lorraine.
With quite a shock, the soldiers say it is ways behind the enemy’s line and territory.
The lieutenant assures them that the war pigs are ready and they can do it. The captain tells them
to decide who to drive and they are good to go. Moffatte is now driving together with the
lieutenant and he mindlessly say his wife wants to go to Germany funnily; Lieutenant Jack
then comforts him that he will see her again. They now pass the enemy boundary — nervously,
they all take cover for themselves as a handful of aircraft is soaring through the sky.
They are in plain sight towards the enemies so they stop for a while — looking on flying planes,
and wondering if they are going to be shot because they are on the wrong side of the line.
They all decide to be on their foot since the aircraft are taking too long on the watch.
The war pigs team leader asks the sergeant where they are exactly. The lieutenant answers that the
gun should be over the ridge, hill 314 — west of where they are located. They are needing
two volunteers for the scouting patrol — the war pigs sergeant and his one soldier are on the go.
The officer captain needs someone to go on the road. Preacher, one of the soldiers, agrees to
go on sight. He needs to go on the bend of the road, find a low position, look for movement,
and if he sees anything, he needs to hurriedly come back to their original location and report.
On the other hand, the lieutenant together with two soldiers are walking across the road when
they see a big canon formed lowly above their location. They are assuming it to be 600 feet
above — sure is a big thing as they describe it as ugly, but it looks like it can be operational.
The lieutenant says their work is done and they now need to get out of where they are.
Confusingly, the sergeant asks if that is it but it is the only thing they
need to report and there they go ahead. Within the location under the captain,
Moffate is digging in mining holes and is indeed doing good work. Preacher, in a hurry,
runs through them saying that German armors are coming down the road. They need to take
cover or else the enemy will see them. Quietly, they are now hiding against the
enemies that are now just on their front side. The Germans are confidently walking while the
soldiers are in instant panic mode. The German throws a grenade disguised as a bottle and they
shout as the two of them get caught. On the other side, the lieutenant that
directly gets hit by the thrown grenade rolls over the floor and suffers from
bomb shock. The German is now getting on the armored van as they have the two soldiers.
With the captain and his soldier’s hiding location, two big armor vehicles come rolling.
They stop on a very location exactly where they are — the captain suspects
it as a maintenance check. The soldiers are running out of breath, nervously hiding.
A German soldier comes closer to their hiding site as he stops for a whiff of a cigarette.
The captain readily prepares his gun as the German soldier sees their truck.
He shouts and the soldiers fire a bullet towards the enemy. There, another battle begins.
The war pigs soldier throws a grenade at the Germans as they continue giving bullets to each
other. The captain confidently goes outside the bushes as he shoots the enemy within the vehicle.
Another grenade is thrown towards the enemy and they seem to lose their number. Plenty of bullets
are going through and through, the captain goes through a fight with a German soldier.
With the last enemy standing, he shoots it dead. The captain is now looking for more enemies to
shoot with when he feels an ache in his stomach — there, he sees and touches blood. A war pigs
soldier comes his way and asks if he is okay, two enemy soldiers are running from their back
and he orders the soldier to get them. He silently screams in pain as his stomach part coats in red.
Lying down in the middle of the bush, the lieutenant gets back up from a distress direct
shot of a grenade. He sees two German soldiers running their way out and the
two soldiers shoot them in no time. As he sees his team, he then reports that their soldiers,
August and Yorke, were taken by the German patrol, they then hurriedly come back to the squad.
Getting there, they see the captain being treated with his wound; he worriedly asks him if he is
okay. He reports to the captain that they saw the millipede gun a few miles from their location,
and it is indeed operational. The lieutenant states that they will go in through the
German depot and let their soldiers out. A few minutes later, they change into
German uniforms as they will go and save the caught soldiers from their team. They now get
the German’s tank, disguised, ready to face the security. The captain says there is a 50/50 chance
of going in there — either they make it out alive or they die, and then the tank moves its way.
On the other hand, August and Yorke are on a site with their hands tied.
The German is now asking them regarding their doings on their territory. He gets curious about
their insignia and Yorke tells him they like to roll on the mad. With a huge amount of rage,
the soldier gives him a huge smack in the face. As they are about to save them, the other soldiers
are now in the tank moving in the German depot. They are passing through the security
and checkpoint very confidently. They arrive smoothly; the lieutenant asks them to stay alert.
Back on the site, the two soldiers are still hand-tied, and Yorke is getting punched directly
on the face, leaving him full of bruises. The German asks him what is his drawing that their
secret weapon, he tells him to go on the next page where the naked lady sketch is, and again,
he gets a big punch. He then punches the sergeant so they are both on the ground with the soldier.
Yorke finds a sharp wood and stabs the German right through his neck.
The lieutenant comes to seek for his men and finds a drawing map of the canon,
he folds it and tucks it in him. A German soldier appears and he offers his lighter
for his cigarette but he immediately knocks his senses with a big punch.
After a few more walks of the lieutenant, he immediately sees his men soldiers — about to be
hung. Jack silently grabs his knife in his pants as his defense. Yorke jokes to August that it is
a good thing they had those rope training. Hurriedly, the lieutenant cuts the German
soldier's neck and preceding fights while throwing more punches towards their enemies’ men.
The men slide while a few of them are running out of breath, Jack is fighting them hard.
He twists the neck of the last man standing, as easy as it seems, he knocks them all out.
After the intense fight, the lieutenant gets his men out of the hanging yard, he gives to
the sergeant his knife to get themselves out. The rest of the soldiers, while waiting, hear that the
Germans will go to test-fire the millipede gun. The lieutenant gets out together with his men but
a soldier he knocked out, comes quickly towards the camp. He then follows him
and starts a big fight with bullets. Germans, now alarmed, are now in an unexpected battle with the
war pigs and their leaders, they fire their guns endlessly. The soldiers are now throwing grenades
towards their enemy, it is a fierce fight. Hastily, the lieutenant comes running and
climbing the tank, he then orders the captain to stop the tank and take the shot to the canon.
The captain gives it a big shot and the millipede gun comes gone in bliss.
Going back to their division, the colonel receives the big map of canon’s parts; he says the division
is going to be mighty happy about it. He promotes the lieutenant into a higher rank, saying that
he and the war pigs are really impressive. He as their commander will be even great.
Going back to the camp, the lieutenant promotes his men, stating that they are the best squad
in the whole army. The movie ends with them taking cheers shouting “To the war pigs!”