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Men of War (1994) More at IMDbPro »

[Nick has just eaten an unborn chick directly from the egg to improve relations with the tribe]
Nick: So you guys eat this all the time or is just for... uhm... ceremonies?
Po: Are you kidding? We don't eat that shit!

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Kiefer: [after he shoots a wounded mercenary] Bullets are cheap and the medics are late.

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Nick: [to Keefer] Welcome to Hell.

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[repeated line]
Nick: It's Swede, like me.

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Lyle: This time you'll be working in a beautiful and very tropical paradise!
Nick: [shouting] I hate the heat.
Warren: Will it help if we say who recommended you?
Nick: [walking away] I know who recommended me.

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Nick: Why didn't you recommend Keefer?
Colonel Merrick: Keefer... This time, for what I'm told, isn't just slash and burn... This one calls for the touch of the poet.

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Blades: What colour?
[Nick stares at him]
Blades: What colour is the people you want me to shoot at, man?
Nick: Lighter than you but darker than me.

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Jimmy G: [to one of his employees] Relax, I'm not gonna kill you... yet!

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Ocker: [sitting in front of the gorilla's cage at the zoo] I know they're doomed. You can see it in the eyes. Ten, twenty years have it extinct.
Nick: I was surprised to hear you're still breathing yourself.
Ocker: The world is dying, Nick. It needs a witness.

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Nolan: [to Nick, after knocking his adversary down] Hey, if you wanna bet your last dime, must be on yourself, right?
[his opponent gets up and knocks him out]

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Kiefer: So, what is your story, bitch? Mmmh?
Grace Lashield: I'm stuck in an island run by assholes. What's yours?

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Grace Lashield: Look, I can help you guys out *and* I can take orders.
Nolan: I'll take the beaver sandwich.

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Po: You want some company tonight, boss? Loki! Can be pretty lonely in the jungle.
Nick: No, I don't need any company.
Jimmy G: [whispering] Shit, I'll take her Nick!
[Nick stares badly at him]

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Nick: Alright, I want you to take me on a guided tour of the ship pile.
Po: Sure thing, boss!
Nick: Keep your eyes open back here.
Nolan: [mocking Po's accent] Sure thing, boss!

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Ocker: [Jamaal's been hit by a child with a blow-pipe] First blood!

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Nick: C'mon, how do you defend yourselves?
Po: What to defend? A couple of trees, lot of rock, bird shit on everything.

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Loki: My mother want to know if you fall from the sky with jellyfish, but I tell her you wash upon sand like garbage.
Nick: Thank you.

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Nick: You're a pain in the ass, you know that?
Loki: My... my father say same thing.

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Nick: You want me to kill for bird shit?
Lyle: Why not? You've done that for less!

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Nick: As of now, I take control of this island and who fucks with it, fucks with me!

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Colonel Merrick: [to Nick] One can be a mercenary and still a gentleman.

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Nolan: Found the jade, didn't you?
Nick: There's no jade. It's bird shit.
Nolan: Bird shit? Oh boy... what do you think I am, idiot?

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Nick: Where's everybody?
Po: They're with the dead.

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Po: The spirit has been gone a long time, but will run back to us. We will fight.
Nick: Like the Old People?
Po: Old People story is bullshit. We are the Old People.

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Colonel Merrick: A man has to have something to honor, Nick, and all I've got left is my word. I gave my word.

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Jimmy G: [smiling, after one of Merrick's men blows up a mine] She moved the fucking mines!

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Jimmy G: [ironically] Got a real crackerjack team Colonel, uh?

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Kiefer: [to Colonel Merrick] Tomorrow I'll give you bodies.

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Nick: [to a mercenary who tried to shoot him in the back but got burned by the backfire of the bazooka] Don't sneak up on people.

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Nick: Where you'll go?
Grace Lashield: Home.
Nick: Where's that?
Grace Lashield: Don't ask.

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[last lines]
Po: We have a legend. It tells of a man who comes far from the oceans and save us from great danger.
Nick: Really?
Po: No. But I'm working on it.

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Kiefer: This is not the ordinary I hit you, you hit me, I hit you, you hit me. No, no, no, no. This is I hit you, I hit you, I fucking hit you!
[to his soldiers]
Kiefer: Everytime he touches me, kill one of his men.

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Nick: Keefer?
Colonel Merrick: Yeah, the three of us back together again. Better to keep an army intact than to destroy it.
Colonel Merrick: [pauses] So on, son. I envy you. You're gonna die for something you believe in.

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Kiefer: [burning the flag of truce] I'll see you in hell, Nicky Gunar!

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Nick: Grace's on the mission.
[to his men]
Nick: Her cut comes out your pay.

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Kiefer: Kind remind you of Angola, doesn't it Nicky? Mmmh? All that burning flesh? God, I was afraid I would never breathe this smell again, Nicky!

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