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* AndThisIsFor: Talbot lets out one of these before [[spoiler:impaling Zaman, avenging his bestie Paul]].
--> '''Talbot''': Remember the name Paul Canthis. When you're in ''hell''. [''stab'']
--> '''Talbot''': Remember the name Paul Canthis. When you're in ''hell''. [''stab'']
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* DarkIsEvil: Played straight and subverted for Rafendek's [[TheDragon dragon]], Zaman. Audiences knows he's a prominent villain and not just another common mook due to his black BadassLongcoat and black [[CoolHat beret]], and the fact that he is depicted as a MookLieutenant leading lower-tier soldiers around. But towards the end of the film, [[spoiler: he ultimately spares Wyatt's life when Wendy begs him to]].
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* DarkIsEvil: Played straight and subverted for Rafendek's [[TheDragon dragon]], Zaman. Audiences knows he's a prominent villain and not just another common mook due to his black BadassLongcoat and black [[CoolHat beret]], beret, and the fact that he is depicted as a MookLieutenant leading lower-tier soldiers around. But towards the end of the film, [[spoiler: he ultimately spares Wyatt's life when Wendy begs him to]].
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: Talbot's partner, who is introduced as a captive of Rafendek who is investigating the refugee transfer, only to be captured alive and flogged by Rafendek's soldiers. Within the first four minutes of his screentime, he gets to witness the hundreds of refugees getting massacred, before Rafendek orders Zaman to execute him. The audience would later learn from Talbot of his BelatedBackstory as a British operative and Talbot's best friend, who had a family waiting for him in London.
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: Talbot's partner, who is introduced as a captive of Rafendek who is investigating the refugee transfer, only to be captured alive and flogged by Rafendek's soldiers. Within the first four minutes of his screentime, he gets to witness the hundreds of refugees getting massacred, before Rafendek orders Zaman to execute him. The audience would later learn from Talbot of his BelatedBackstory backstory as a British operative and Talbot's best friend, who had a family waiting for him in London.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Colonel Zaman ultimately [[spoiler: spares Wyatt's life after Wendy pleads him not to pull the trigger. They both get captured alive at the end instead]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Colonel Zaman ultimately [[spoiler: spares Wyatt's life after Wendy pleads with him not to pull the trigger. They both get captured alive at the end instead]].
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* LancerVsDragon: The film's climatic final battle ends with Talbot fighting against Zaman, both of them the NumberTwo of their respective teams. [[spoiler:The fight culminates in Talbot impaling Zaman with an iron rod.]]
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: Talbot's partner, who is introduced as a captive of Rafendek who is investigating the refugee transfer, only to be captured alive and flogged by Rafendek's soldiers. Within the first four minutes of his screentime, he gets to witness the hundreds of refugees getting massacre, massacred, before Rafendek orders Zaman to execute him. The audience would later learn from Talbot of his BelatedBackstory as a British operative and Talbot's best friend, who had a family waiting for him in London.
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* DeathMarch: Used in General Rafendek's EstablishingCharacterMoment, when he had hundreds of Moldonian refugees, being promised their freedom, marching towards the Moldonian border in the country's outskirts, before suddenly unveiling a pair of heavy machine-guns, which he then commands to gun down every refugee in the area. It's even more disturbing when in earlier scenes, [[WouldHurtAChild there are children present among those refugees]].
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* DeathMarch: Used in General Rafendek's EstablishingCharacterMoment, EstablishingCharacterMoment; when he had hundreds of Moldonian refugees, being promised their freedom, marching towards the Moldonian border in the country's outskirts, outskirts before suddenly unveiling a pair of heavy machine-guns, machine-guns which he then commands to gun mow down every refugee in the area. It's even more disturbing when in earlier scenes, scenes shows [[WouldHurtAChild there are several children present among those refugees]].
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* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Talbot is absent from most marketing or DVD covers, despite being a major player in the film. Granted, he didn't show up until the second act and it would seem odd to have a British SAS operative standing alonside members of a US-based Special Forces team...
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* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Talbot is absent from most marketing or DVD covers, despite being a major player in the film. Granted, he didn't show up until the second act and it would seem odd to have a British SAS operative standing alonside alongside members of a US-based Special Forces team...
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* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Major Harding vs. Rafendek at the end, in a [[MatchInABombShack burning warehouse full of missiles]].
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** The Special Forces had to [[spoiler: witness Saira beign shot by Rafendek]] while keeping quiet, to prevent their cover being blown.
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** The Special Forces had to [[spoiler: witness Saira beign being shot by Rafendek]] while keeping quiet, to prevent their cover being blown.blown.
** At the end of the forest shootout [[spoiler: when the Special Forces are recaptured]], among the last two survivors, Major Harding and Jess, [[spoiler: Harding had to watch Jess being shot by Rafendek while he's held down by several soldiers]].
** At the end of the forest shootout [[spoiler: when the Special Forces are recaptured]], among the last two survivors, Major Harding and Jess, [[spoiler: Harding had to watch Jess being shot by Rafendek while he's held down by several soldiers]].
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Bear, after being mortally wounded in the forest shootout, instead grabs a grenade and jumps on one last group of enemies. The ensuing explosion kills everyone in the area]].
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* WeHArdlyKnewYe: WalkingShirtlessScene: It's really no surprise that Talbot, being played by [[MrFanservice Scott Adkins]], would have his entire shirt ripped off at the end of his duel against Zaman.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Talbot's partner, who is introduced as a captive of Rafendek who is investigating the refugee transfer, only to be captured alive and flogged by Rafendek's soldiers. Within the first four minutes of his screentime, he gets to witness the hundreds of refugees getting massacre, before Rafendek orders Zaman to execute him. The audience would later learn from Talbot of his BelatedBackstory as a British operative and Talbot's best friend, who had a family waiting for him in London.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Talbot's partner, who is introduced as a captive of Rafendek who is investigating the refugee transfer, only to be captured alive and flogged by Rafendek's soldiers. Within the first four minutes of his screentime, he gets to witness the hundreds of refugees getting massacre, before Rafendek orders Zaman to execute him. The audience would later learn from Talbot of his BelatedBackstory as a British operative and Talbot's best friend, who had a family waiting for him in London.
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* DarkIsEvil: Played straight and subverted for Rafendek's [[TheDragon dragon]], Zaman. Audiences knows he's a prominent villain and not just another common mook due to his black BadassLongcoat and black [[CoolCap beret]], and the fact that he is depicted as a MookLieutenant leading lower-tier soldiers around. But towards the end of the film, [[spoiler: he ultimately spares Wyatt's life when Wendy begs him to]].
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* DarkIsEvil: Played straight and subverted for Rafendek's [[TheDragon dragon]], Zaman. Audiences knows he's a prominent villain and not just another common mook due to his black BadassLongcoat and black [[CoolCap [[CoolHat beret]], and the fact that he is depicted as a MookLieutenant leading lower-tier soldiers around. But towards the end of the film, [[spoiler: he ultimately spares Wyatt's life when Wendy begs him to]].
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* SpannerInTheWorks: At the end of the film, the Special Forces are recaptured, and are awaiting their execution. But Rafendek completely forgot about Talbot, who comes back later, infiltrates his base, and help the surviving heroes escape.
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''Special Forces'' is a 2003 Direct-to-Video action film directed by Isaac Florentine, starring Marshall Teague, Danny Lee Clark, Tim Abell and Creator/ScottAdkins. It is notably Adkins' first heroic film role and his first portrayal of a prominent named character, although he wouldn't get a starring part as main character protagonist until ''Film/UndisputedIILastManStanding'' three years later.
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* HopeSpot: After rescuing Wendy and leaving Rafendek's base alive, the Special Forces then radios in a chopper, ready to deliver them back to the States... but said chopper suddenly blows up in mid-air before reaching the good guys. Cue numerous armoured vehicles and battalions of Rafendek's soldiers coming up from behind.
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* HopeSpot: After rescuing Wendy and leaving Rafendek's base alive, the Special Forces then radios in a chopper, ready to deliver them back to the States... but said chopper suddenly blows up in mid-air before reaching the good guys. Cue numerous armoured armored vehicles and battalions of Rafendek's soldiers coming up from behind.
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Rafendek's soldiers couldn't hit a target right in front of them, despite most of them armed with machine-guns. It's ''hillarious''.
* ItsPersonal: Talbot's reason for helping the Special Forces take down Rafendek? To avenge his partner, who was executed by Rafendek for espisionage. According to Talbot, said partner [[IHaveAFamily has two children and a pregnant wife]] waiting for him in London.
* ItsPersonal: Talbot's reason for helping the Special Forces take down Rafendek? To avenge his partner, who was executed by Rafendek for espisionage. According to Talbot, said partner [[IHaveAFamily has two children and a pregnant wife]] waiting for him in London.
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Rafendek's soldiers couldn't hit a target right in front of them, despite most of them armed with machine-guns. It's ''hillarious''.
''hilarious''.
* IronicEcho: "Morphine's kicked in, huh?" - firstly spoken from Wyatt to Wendy when she's recovered from her cell, and then from Wendy back to Wyatt when they're on an evac transport.
* ItsPersonal: Talbot's reason for helping the Special Forces take down Rafendek? To avenge his partner, who was executed by Rafendek forespisionage.espionage. According to Talbot, said partner [[IHaveAFamily has two children and a pregnant wife]] waiting for him in London.
* IronicEcho: "Morphine's kicked in, huh?" - firstly spoken from Wyatt to Wendy when she's recovered from her cell, and then from Wendy back to Wyatt when they're on an evac transport.
* ItsPersonal: Talbot's reason for helping the Special Forces take down Rafendek? To avenge his partner, who was executed by Rafendek for
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* SoMuchForStealth: Wendy's attempts at recording the footage of General Rafendek executing an ethnic cleanising from behind a set of tall grass is blown when sunlight reflects off her cameraman's lenses.
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''Special Forces'' is a 2003 Direct-to-Video action film directed by Isaac Florentine, starring Marshall Teague, Danny Lee Clark, Tim Abell and Creator/ScottAdkins. It is notably Adkins' first heroic film role in the film, and his first portrayal of a prominent named character, although he wouldn't get a starring part as main character until ''Film/UndisputedIILastManStanding'' three years later.
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''Special Forces'' is a 2003 Direct-to-Video action film directed by Isaac Florentine, starring Marshall Teague, Danny Lee Clark, Tim Abell and Creator/ScottAdkins.
An atypical Men-on-a-Mission film, the titular Special Forces are a band of American-based PrivateMilitaryContractors sent into the war-torn fictional [[BananaRepublic Eastern European nation of Moldonia]] to rescue a kidnapped reporter, Wendy Teller, who is arrested while investigating a genocide committed by it's local military leader, General Hasib Rafendek. Upon arrival in Moldonia, the Special Force ends up working together with Talbot (Scott), a British operative, who is desperate to avenge his partner killed in the line of duty.
An atypical Men-on-a-Mission film, the titular Special Forces are a band of American-based PrivateMilitaryContractors sent into the war-torn fictional [[BananaRepublic Eastern European nation of Moldonia]] to rescue a kidnapped reporter, Wendy Teller, who is arrested while investigating a genocide committed by it's local military leader, General Hasib Rafendek. Upon arrival in Moldonia, the Special Force ends up working together with Talbot (Scott), a British operative, who is desperate to avenge his partner killed in the line of duty.
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''Special Forces'' is a 2003 Direct-to-Video action film directed by Isaac Florentine, starring Marshall Teague, Danny Lee Clark, Tim Abell and Creator/ScottAdkins.
Creator/ScottAdkins. It is notably Adkins' first heroic role in the film, although he wouldn't get a starring part as main character until ''Film/UndisputedIILastManStanding'' three years later.
An atypical Men-on-a-Mission film, the titular Special Forces are a band of American-based PrivateMilitaryContractors sent into the war-torn fictional [[BananaRepublic Eastern European nation of Moldonia]] to rescue a kidnapped reporter, Wendy Teller,who is arrested while investigating a genocide committed by it's local military leader, General Hasib Rafendek. Upon arrival in Moldonia, the Special Force ends Forces end up working together with Talbot (Scott), a British operative, who is desperate to avenge his partner killed in the line of duty.
An atypical Men-on-a-Mission film, the titular Special Forces are a band of American-based PrivateMilitaryContractors sent into the war-torn fictional [[BananaRepublic Eastern European nation of Moldonia]] to rescue a kidnapped reporter, Wendy Teller,
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An atypical Men-on-a-Mission film, the titular Special Forces are a band of American-based PrivateMilitaryContractors sent into the war-torn fictional [[BananaRepublic Eastern European nation of Moldonia]] to rescue a kidnapped reporter, Wendy Teller, who is arrested while investigating a genocide committed by it's local military leader, General Hasib Rafendek. Upon arrival in Moldonia, the Special Force ends up working together with Talbot (Scott), a British operative, who is desperate to avenge his partner who is killed by Rafendek's men.
in the line of duty.
They started off trying to rescue a chick, and ends up overthrowing a dictator and liberating a small country from tyranny. Wait a minute, [[Film/TheExpendables that sounds familiar]]…
They started off trying to rescue a chick, and ends up overthrowing a dictator and liberating a small country from tyranny. Wait a minute, [[Film/TheExpendables that sounds familiar]]…
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''Special Forces'' is a 2003 Direct-to-Video action film directed by Isaac Florentine, starring Marshall Teague, Danny Lee Clark, Tim Abell and Creator/ScottAdkins.
An atypical Men-on-a-Mission film, the titular Special Forces are a band of American-based PrivateMilitaryContractors sent into the war-torn fictional [[BananaRepublic Eastern European nation of Moldonia]] to rescue a kidnapped reporter, Wendy Teller, who is arrested while investigating a genocide committed by it's local military leader, General Hasib Rafendek. Upon arrival in Moldonia, the Special Force ends up working together with Talbot (Scott), a British operative, who is desperate to avenge his partner who is killed by Rafendek's men.
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!!Special Tropes:
* BadassBiker: Talbot's main transportation around Moldonia is his trusty motorcycle. In the first meeting between Talbot and the Special Forces, an escaped enemy soldier is about to alert the local army about the Special Forces' presence, but Talbot's timely arrival on his motorbike took the soldier down.
* BadassCrew: The Special Forces, of course. With Talbot the British operative joining the team for his own reasons.
* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: [[spoiler: Bear]] is one of the first member of the Special Forces to die. Not that most of them are going to survive the final act, though.
* CounterpartCombatCoordination: It's no coincidence that the final battle ends with Harding, the leader of the Special Forces, taking on the main villain Rafendek while Talbot, the closest the movie has to TheLancer, fights Rafendek's [[TheDragon Dragon]] Zaman.
* DamselInDistress: Wendy Teller, an American reporter who witnessed the genocide and ends up being captured alive by Rafendek's soldiers. The Special Forces' mission is to rescue her, but they end up uncovering a much bigger conspiracy.
* DeathMarch: Used in General Rafendek's EstablishingCharacterMoment, when he had hundreds of Moldonian refugees, being promised their freedom, marching towards the Moldonian border in the country's outskirts, before suddenly unveiling a pair of heavy machine-guns, which he then commands to gun down every refugee in the area. It's even more disturbing when in earlier scenes, [[WouldHurtAChild there are children present among those refugees]].
* DeadMansTriggerFinger: In Talbot's final infiltration scene, his cover is blown when he guns down a guard... who fires a number of shots just as he falls.
* TheDragon: Colonel Zaman, Rafendek's NumberTwo and the most competent fighter in Rafendek's army, who can go toe-to-toe against Talbot in a fight.
* DuelToTheDeath: Two simultaneously in the ending; Major Harding vs. General Rafendek and Talbot vs. Zaman. [[spoiler: Goes without saying that the good guys are on the winning side]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Colonel Zaman ultimately [[spoiler: spares Wyatt's life after Wendy pleads him not to pull the trigger. They both get captured alive at the end instead]].
* FiveManBand: The eponymous Special Forces (and Talbot), of course.
** TheHero: Major Don Harding, leader of the Speical Forces and main character of the film.
** TheLancer: Talbot, the British SAS Operative who swears vengeance on Rafendek over his partner's death, forming an alliance with the Special Forces. He actually overlaps with the SixthRanger due to being the last prominent character introduced in the film.
** TheSmartGuy: Jess, the strategist of the Special Forces, and also their FriendlySniper.
** TheBigGuy: The appropriately named Bear, who gets to kick all sorts of ass with a shotgun.
** TheHeart: Wyatt, the team's resident NiceGuy, who gives a necklace to a local child.
* ForcedToWatch: Quite a few...
** Wendy and her cameraman is forced to witness a few hundred refugees getting machine-gunned by Rafendek's soldiers, while stealthily attempting to record video evidence of the massacre.
** Talbot's partner, in the same scene, realize the refugee transfer to be a genocide, but can't do anything about it due to being brutally tortured and handcuffed to a jeep.
** The Special Forces had to [[spoiler: witness Saira beign shot by Rafendek]] while keeping quiet, to prevent their cover being blown.
* HarmfulToMinors: General Rafendek had no qualms [[spoiler: executing Saira, a local schoolteacher]] in front of several children.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Ultimately, the SAS Operatives, who are not part of the titular Special Forces but are heroes of their own mission.
* HollywoodTactics: Yeah, about that... what's the use of having silencers in their weapons, when one of the Special Forces' key members, Bear, solely uses a shotgun and explosives?
* HollywoodSilencer: Played straight during night infiltration scenes, when Harding and Talbot, whose weapons are equipped with silencers, can stealthily take down guards without alerting attention.
* HopeSpot: After rescuing Wendy and leaving Rafendek's base alive, the Special Forces then radios in a chopper, ready to deliver them back to the States... but said chopper suddenly blows up in mid-air before reaching the good guys. Cue numerous armoured vehicles and battalions of Rafendek's soldiers coming up from behind.
* ImpaledPalm: [[spoiler: In the final fight, Harding impales General Rafendek through ''both'' of his palms, straight into a rack, in a burning warehouse full of missiles. Rafendek ends up being blown to bits by an ignited missile]].
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Zaman, in the hands of Talbot, via a long metal bar]].
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Rafendek's soldiers couldn't hit a target right in front of them, despite most of them armed with machine-guns. It's ''hillarious''.
* ItsPersonal: Talbot's reason for helping the Special Forces take down Rafendek? To avenge his partner, who was executed by Rafendek for espisionage. According to Talbot, said partner [[IHaveAFamily has two children and a pregnant wife]] waiting for him in London.
* KlingonPromotion: After [[spoiler: Rafendek executes President Hrankoff and officially took over leadership]].
* LudicrousGibs:
** [[spoiler: Bear after leaping at a group of enemies while holding a grenade]].
** [[spoiler: General Rafendek]], after being nailed to a rack, and having a ''missile'' (meant to be mounted on armoured vehicles) fired into his direction. '''[[LaserGuidedKarma Good riddance]]''.
* OffhandBackhand: After killing a number of mooks in one scene, Talbot randomly fires his pistol behind killing an incoming mook.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: The Hezbollah terrorist leader in the opening scene gets his brains blown off with a ''tiny'' red squib. Despite being shot by a high-powered SniperRifle.
* PuppetKing: President Hrankoff, while being the official ruler of Moldonia, is merely a President InNameOnly, due to General Rafendek growing too much in power and completely taking over his leadership. The General can in fact legalise unspeakable acts of atrocities, such as ethnic cleansing and executing the President's aide in public, and have everything swept under a rug and the President is unable to do anything about it.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The preferred weapon used by Bear. Appropriately enough, it can send mooks getting BlownAcrossTheRoom with each shot.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Talbot is absent from most marketing or DVD covers, despite being a major player in the film. Granted, he didn't show up until the second act and it would seem odd to have a British SAS operative standing alonside members of a US-based Special Forces team...
* SoMuchForStealth: Wendy's attempts at recording the footage of General Rafendek executing an ethnic cleanising from behind a set of tall grass is blown when sunlight reflects off her cameraman's lenses.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: For Major Harding, who lose his former partner in a mission in Bosnia eight years ago.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: General Rafendek, despite being subserviant to President Hrankoff on the surface, ultimately grew too much in power until the President is forced into becoming a pawn for the General and is helpless to prevent Rafendek from allowing daily massacre of innocent refugees. [[spoiler: Rafendek's takeover becomes complete in the last act when he had President Hrankoff shot while still in office]].
* WeHArdlyKnewYe: Talbot's partner, who is introduced as a captive of Rafendek who is investigating the refugee transfer, only to be captured alive and flogged by Rafendek's soldiers. Within the first four minutes of his screentime, he gets to witness the hundreds of refugees getting massacre, before Rafendek orders Zaman to execute him. The audience would later learn from Talbot of his BelatedBAckstory as a British operative and Talbot's best friend, who had a family waiting for him in London.
* ZergRush: The tactics employed by Rafendek's forces. [[ATeamFiring It usually doesn't work]].
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''Special Forces'' is a 2003 Direct-to-Video action film directed by Isaac Florentine, starring Marshall Teague, Danny Lee Clark, Tim Abell and Creator/ScottAdkins.
An atypical Men-on-a-Mission film, the titular Special Forces are a band of American-based PrivateMilitaryContractors sent into the war-torn fictional [[BananaRepublic Eastern European nation of Moldonia]] to rescue a kidnapped reporter, Wendy Teller, who is arrested while investigating a genocide committed by it's local military leader, General Hasib Rafendek. Upon arrival in Moldonia, the Special Force ends up working together with Talbot (Scott), a British operative, who is desperate to avenge his partner who is killed by Rafendek's men.
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!!Special Tropes:
* BadassBiker: Talbot's main transportation around Moldonia is his trusty motorcycle. In the first meeting between Talbot and the Special Forces, an escaped enemy soldier is about to alert the local army about the Special Forces' presence, but Talbot's timely arrival on his motorbike took the soldier down.
* BadassCrew: The Special Forces, of course. With Talbot the British operative joining the team for his own reasons.
* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: [[spoiler: Bear]] is one of the first member of the Special Forces to die. Not that most of them are going to survive the final act, though.
* CounterpartCombatCoordination: It's no coincidence that the final battle ends with Harding, the leader of the Special Forces, taking on the main villain Rafendek while Talbot, the closest the movie has to TheLancer, fights Rafendek's [[TheDragon Dragon]] Zaman.
* DamselInDistress: Wendy Teller, an American reporter who witnessed the genocide and ends up being captured alive by Rafendek's soldiers. The Special Forces' mission is to rescue her, but they end up uncovering a much bigger conspiracy.
* DeathMarch: Used in General Rafendek's EstablishingCharacterMoment, when he had hundreds of Moldonian refugees, being promised their freedom, marching towards the Moldonian border in the country's outskirts, before suddenly unveiling a pair of heavy machine-guns, which he then commands to gun down every refugee in the area. It's even more disturbing when in earlier scenes, [[WouldHurtAChild there are children present among those refugees]].
* DeadMansTriggerFinger: In Talbot's final infiltration scene, his cover is blown when he guns down a guard... who fires a number of shots just as he falls.
* TheDragon: Colonel Zaman, Rafendek's NumberTwo and the most competent fighter in Rafendek's army, who can go toe-to-toe against Talbot in a fight.
* DuelToTheDeath: Two simultaneously in the ending; Major Harding vs. General Rafendek and Talbot vs. Zaman. [[spoiler: Goes without saying that the good guys are on the winning side]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Colonel Zaman ultimately [[spoiler: spares Wyatt's life after Wendy pleads him not to pull the trigger. They both get captured alive at the end instead]].
* FiveManBand: The eponymous Special Forces (and Talbot), of course.
** TheHero: Major Don Harding, leader of the Speical Forces and main character of the film.
** TheLancer: Talbot, the British SAS Operative who swears vengeance on Rafendek over his partner's death, forming an alliance with the Special Forces. He actually overlaps with the SixthRanger due to being the last prominent character introduced in the film.
** TheSmartGuy: Jess, the strategist of the Special Forces, and also their FriendlySniper.
** TheBigGuy: The appropriately named Bear, who gets to kick all sorts of ass with a shotgun.
** TheHeart: Wyatt, the team's resident NiceGuy, who gives a necklace to a local child.
* ForcedToWatch: Quite a few...
** Wendy and her cameraman is forced to witness a few hundred refugees getting machine-gunned by Rafendek's soldiers, while stealthily attempting to record video evidence of the massacre.
** Talbot's partner, in the same scene, realize the refugee transfer to be a genocide, but can't do anything about it due to being brutally tortured and handcuffed to a jeep.
** The Special Forces had to [[spoiler: witness Saira beign shot by Rafendek]] while keeping quiet, to prevent their cover being blown.
* HarmfulToMinors: General Rafendek had no qualms [[spoiler: executing Saira, a local schoolteacher]] in front of several children.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Ultimately, the SAS Operatives, who are not part of the titular Special Forces but are heroes of their own mission.
* HollywoodTactics: Yeah, about that... what's the use of having silencers in their weapons, when one of the Special Forces' key members, Bear, solely uses a shotgun and explosives?
* HollywoodSilencer: Played straight during night infiltration scenes, when Harding and Talbot, whose weapons are equipped with silencers, can stealthily take down guards without alerting attention.
* HopeSpot: After rescuing Wendy and leaving Rafendek's base alive, the Special Forces then radios in a chopper, ready to deliver them back to the States... but said chopper suddenly blows up in mid-air before reaching the good guys. Cue numerous armoured vehicles and battalions of Rafendek's soldiers coming up from behind.
* ImpaledPalm: [[spoiler: In the final fight, Harding impales General Rafendek through ''both'' of his palms, straight into a rack, in a burning warehouse full of missiles. Rafendek ends up being blown to bits by an ignited missile]].
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Zaman, in the hands of Talbot, via a long metal bar]].
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Rafendek's soldiers couldn't hit a target right in front of them, despite most of them armed with machine-guns. It's ''hillarious''.
* ItsPersonal: Talbot's reason for helping the Special Forces take down Rafendek? To avenge his partner, who was executed by Rafendek for espisionage. According to Talbot, said partner [[IHaveAFamily has two children and a pregnant wife]] waiting for him in London.
* KlingonPromotion: After [[spoiler: Rafendek executes President Hrankoff and officially took over leadership]].
* LudicrousGibs:
** [[spoiler: Bear after leaping at a group of enemies while holding a grenade]].
** [[spoiler: General Rafendek]], after being nailed to a rack, and having a ''missile'' (meant to be mounted on armoured vehicles) fired into his direction. '''[[LaserGuidedKarma Good riddance]]''.
* OffhandBackhand: After killing a number of mooks in one scene, Talbot randomly fires his pistol behind killing an incoming mook.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: The Hezbollah terrorist leader in the opening scene gets his brains blown off with a ''tiny'' red squib. Despite being shot by a high-powered SniperRifle.
* PuppetKing: President Hrankoff, while being the official ruler of Moldonia, is merely a President InNameOnly, due to General Rafendek growing too much in power and completely taking over his leadership. The General can in fact legalise unspeakable acts of atrocities, such as ethnic cleansing and executing the President's aide in public, and have everything swept under a rug and the President is unable to do anything about it.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The preferred weapon used by Bear. Appropriately enough, it can send mooks getting BlownAcrossTheRoom with each shot.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Talbot is absent from most marketing or DVD covers, despite being a major player in the film. Granted, he didn't show up until the second act and it would seem odd to have a British SAS operative standing alonside members of a US-based Special Forces team...
* SoMuchForStealth: Wendy's attempts at recording the footage of General Rafendek executing an ethnic cleanising from behind a set of tall grass is blown when sunlight reflects off her cameraman's lenses.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: For Major Harding, who lose his former partner in a mission in Bosnia eight years ago.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: General Rafendek, despite being subserviant to President Hrankoff on the surface, ultimately grew too much in power until the President is forced into becoming a pawn for the General and is helpless to prevent Rafendek from allowing daily massacre of innocent refugees. [[spoiler: Rafendek's takeover becomes complete in the last act when he had President Hrankoff shot while still in office]].
* WeHArdlyKnewYe: Talbot's partner, who is introduced as a captive of Rafendek who is investigating the refugee transfer, only to be captured alive and flogged by Rafendek's soldiers. Within the first four minutes of his screentime, he gets to witness the hundreds of refugees getting massacre, before Rafendek orders Zaman to execute him. The audience would later learn from Talbot of his BelatedBAckstory as a British operative and Talbot's best friend, who had a family waiting for him in London.
* ZergRush: The tactics employed by Rafendek's forces. [[ATeamFiring It usually doesn't work]].
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