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'''''Nam Angels''''' is a 1989 American {{action|Genre}} {{war movie|s}}.
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'''''Nam Angels'''''
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Not to be confused with ''Film/TheLosers1970'', ''Film/{{The Losers|1970}}'', an unrelated film with a similar plot.plot (though it should be noted that said film has also been released as ''Nam'''[='s=]''' Angels'', note the apostrophe).
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* TeamTitleTeamTitle: The titular "Nam Angels," which are literally (and inexplicably) a group of Hells Angels on a rescue mission in Vietnam, led by the film's hero Vince Calhoun.
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* BadBoss: Chard's response to a village loyal to him giving aid to Calhoun and his forces is to have the place utterly massacred without mercy.
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* NominalHero: The Hells Angels are drug runners only taking the mission for the gold, but they're still rescuing POW's from an ex-Nazi warlord.
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* NominalHero: The Hells Angels are drug runners only taking the mission for the gold, but they're still rescuing POW's from an ex-Nazi warlord. They ''do'' soften up a bit as the film progresses and decide to help Calhoun as the film progresses, placing them closer to UnscrupulousHero.
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* PlayingBothSides: Chard's smack dab in the middle of the Vietnamese War but he holds allegiance to none of them, selling out his prisoners to both sides while having his tribe massacre soldiers from both the VC ''and'' the NVA.
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'''''Nam Angels''''' is a 1989 American {{action|Genre}} {{war movie|s}}.
While fighting off a Viet Cong unit, Lieutenant Vance Calhoun is saved by an indigenous tribe. Or so he thought. You see, the tribe actually killed the VC unit because their boss, a former Nazi official, wanted to capture the unit for his own nefarious ends. Calhoun manages to escape, but loses the rest of his men. Desperate to not attract attention, the lieutenant contracts five soldiers to attack the base on motorcycles and break his buddies out.
Not to be confused with ''Film/TheLosers1970'', an unrelated film with a similar plot.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AGodAmI: Chard has convinced the tribe that nursed him back to health that he is a god, and uses their worship for his own ends.
* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Unlike a lot of biker movies, with use a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of the Angels, this film has actual Hells Angels as main characters.
* BarBrawl: The Hells Angels are introduced getting in a brawl with some MP's who confiscated their bikes.
* BigBad: Chard, the former Nazi who captured Calhoun's unit.
* BigBadWannabe: There's this unnamed VC captain whose men give our heroes a hard time throughout the first half of the film, but he's simply an obstacle to their true, non-Vietnam affiliated adversary, and is killed about an hour in.
* BrilliantButLazy: Bonelli can mentally calculate numbers in the millions within seconds, but chooses to run drugs for a biker gang instead of putting his mathematical genius to use.
* DirtyCommunists: The Viet Cong serve as the secondary antagonists of the film, mostly serving to attack our heroes while they're looking for the tribe that kidnapped Calhoun's unit. {{Downplayed}} in that their communist ideologies aren't really focused on, and they're basically generic enemy soldiers as far as the film is concerned, especially since the real BigBad believes in Nazism, a far right ideology.
* FormerRegimePersonnel: Chard went through this twice, initially serving in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's Waffen-SS during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII before ending up in the French Foreign Legion and being sent to their Vietnam colony. After the civil war happened, he broke off on his own and became a warlord.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Colonel Chin, a Viet Cong commander who has dealings with Chard. While his men show up several times in the film, Chin himself does not.
* LegionOfLostSouls: Chard ended up in Vietnam as a member of the French Foreign Legion.
* MightyWhitey: Calhoun and the bikers take some time out of their mission to rescue some Vietnamese villagers who are being slaughtered by the Viet Cong.
* NationalGeographicNudity: The women of the tribe Chard controls are all topless.
* NominalHero: The Hells Angels are drug runners only taking the mission for the gold, but they're still rescuing POW's from an ex-Nazi warlord.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The bikers are convinced to fight when they're told about some gold the baddies have.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: Calhoun has two weeks to rescue his unit before the area is bombed.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: An Army lieutenant hires a group of Hells Angels to rescue his unit and shoot anybody who stands in their way.
* TeamTitle
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'''''Nam Angels''''' is a 1989 American {{action|Genre}} {{war movie|s}}.
While fighting off a Viet Cong unit, Lieutenant Vance Calhoun is saved by an indigenous tribe. Or so he thought. You see, the tribe actually killed the VC unit because their boss, a former Nazi official, wanted to capture the unit for his own nefarious ends. Calhoun manages to escape, but loses the rest of his men. Desperate to not attract attention, the lieutenant contracts five soldiers to attack the base on motorcycles and break his buddies out.
Not to be confused with ''Film/TheLosers1970'', an unrelated film with a similar plot.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AGodAmI: Chard has convinced the tribe that nursed him back to health that he is a god, and uses their worship for his own ends.
* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Unlike a lot of biker movies, with use a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of the Angels, this film has actual Hells Angels as main characters.
* BarBrawl: The Hells Angels are introduced getting in a brawl with some MP's who confiscated their bikes.
* BigBad: Chard, the former Nazi who captured Calhoun's unit.
* BigBadWannabe: There's this unnamed VC captain whose men give our heroes a hard time throughout the first half of the film, but he's simply an obstacle to their true, non-Vietnam affiliated adversary, and is killed about an hour in.
* BrilliantButLazy: Bonelli can mentally calculate numbers in the millions within seconds, but chooses to run drugs for a biker gang instead of putting his mathematical genius to use.
* DirtyCommunists: The Viet Cong serve as the secondary antagonists of the film, mostly serving to attack our heroes while they're looking for the tribe that kidnapped Calhoun's unit. {{Downplayed}} in that their communist ideologies aren't really focused on, and they're basically generic enemy soldiers as far as the film is concerned, especially since the real BigBad believes in Nazism, a far right ideology.
* FormerRegimePersonnel: Chard went through this twice, initially serving in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany's Waffen-SS during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII before ending up in the French Foreign Legion and being sent to their Vietnam colony. After the civil war happened, he broke off on his own and became a warlord.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Colonel Chin, a Viet Cong commander who has dealings with Chard. While his men show up several times in the film, Chin himself does not.
* LegionOfLostSouls: Chard ended up in Vietnam as a member of the French Foreign Legion.
* MightyWhitey: Calhoun and the bikers take some time out of their mission to rescue some Vietnamese villagers who are being slaughtered by the Viet Cong.
* NationalGeographicNudity: The women of the tribe Chard controls are all topless.
* NominalHero: The Hells Angels are drug runners only taking the mission for the gold, but they're still rescuing POW's from an ex-Nazi warlord.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The bikers are convinced to fight when they're told about some gold the baddies have.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: Calhoun has two weeks to rescue his unit before the area is bombed.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: An Army lieutenant hires a group of Hells Angels to rescue his unit and shoot anybody who stands in their way.
* TeamTitle
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