Mercenaries (2011)
Outgunned, Outnumbered, and Outside the Law
Género : Drama, Acción
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 37M
Director : Paris Leonti
Escritor : Paris Leonti
Sinopsis
Andy Marlow es un ex-soldado de las fuerzas especiales británicas, que es reclutado, junto a otros dos mercenarios, para rescatar al embajador de E.E.U.U. y sus ayudantes, que se encuentran secuestrados, en la ciudad de Srebrenica, por Olodan Cracovic, ex-comandante de el ejercito croata, buscado por crímenes contra la humanidad, cometidos durante la guerra de los Balcanes.
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