I AM A GREAT FAN OF SPECIAL AIR SERVICE (SAS). WATCHED ALMOST ALL SAS MOVIES WHICH USES GAS MASK (RESIDENT EVILS INCLUDED).. RATING WILL BE GIVEN AFTER ENG SUB IS PROVIDED.. THANK YOU..

It's pretty obvious that "Who Dares Wins" (a.k.a. "The Final Option") was an attempt by the British film industry to compete with American action/suspense films coming out at the time. And it does get a few things right. Though not give a gargantuan budget, the movie does look pretty slick and polished. And the last half hour does contain some genuine excitement and suspense, as well as some good action. However, the first ninety or so minutes do have some significant flaws. There's little in the way of sympathetic characters; even the hero has a significant degree of unlikability about him. Also, while he's a professional, he commits some sloppy acts here and there. (For that matter, the bad guys also come across as dumb sometimes.) There are also some draggy bits; the movie could have used some more action and suspense in those first ninety minutes. And the anti-American musical number around the twenty-one minute mark is very unintentionally funny. Despite these flaws, I have to confess I didn't find the movie boring (though it gets dangerously close to being so several times.) Though I can't label it a must see, it is okay if your expectations aren't great and you can't find anything better to watch.

A flick about the SAS rescuing a handful of high-echelon American and Brit statesmen and military people who are being kept hostage by the People's Liberation Army or the Kill For Peace Movement or the SLA or the Wobblies or some other radical leftists.It's always interesting to see which organization is saddled with the role of villain in these movies. This was released in 1982, when Reagan was president, and America was still carrying baggage left over from the Vietnam War. However, the groups depicted, led by a breathless, determined, and sexy Judy Davis with an American accent, is merely using a legitimate anti-nuclear group as a cover for their violent agenda.This is a common ploy to avoid assigning blame to any member of any political group that might buy tickets to the movie. In Tom Clancy's "Patriot Games," the evil doers are a splinter group of the Irish Revolutionary Army -- not the IRA itself. In "The Enforcer," Clint Eastwood's enemies are a fake revolutionary group only in it for the money. In "Three Days of the Condor", Robert Redford must deal with a secret cabal within the CIA. In "Magnum Force" it's a clandestine death squad within the San Francisco Police Department. It's a radical splinter of Russian terrorists in "Air Force One," not the Russians.The ethnic and racial make up of the heavies are interesting as well. For the longest while they had German accents. We were unable to forgive them for World War II. Ingrid Pitt has the role of the German dominatrix in this film. And one English diplomat tells another, who is anti-war, "Peace in our time?" This is a slur against Neville Chamberlain. He returned from Munich in 1939 with a treaty signed by "Herr Hitler", promising not to invade any more countries, which he promptly did. Chamberlaine has been in disgrace ever since 1939 because everyone now knows that if he had declared war on Hitler in 1939, war could have been averted.I'd like to get down off this platform because I'm not a historian, just a sanitation engineer, which is what we garbage men call ourselves, but it seems my steel-toed boot is caught under the lectern.This movie, like Gaul, is divided into three parts. The first third has a lot of suspense, although the dynamics of the plot are familiar enough. Lewis Collins shams a resignation from the SAS in order to insinuate himself into the enemy's camp. He begins by visiting The Marlboro Club where they hang out, and he stays to watch the show. It's all anti-American, with a deformed Statue of Liberty, and so forth. The principal performer has had dance training. One by one, he lifts his leg and sweeps it in an arc in front of his face. Terpsichoreans call this a "fan" and it's a demanding move. If you tried it, you'd bust your acetabula.The sexual collision of the bland, handsome, inexpressive Collins with Judy Davis is de rigueur. Lucky Lew. Judy Davis, even with that frizzly radical hair, looks like Susan Hayward if Susan Hayward were more predatory. And Davis' American accent is impeccable. "Hand me that gun, will ya?" Lots of mystery and intrigue in Part One.In Part Two, the People's United Front and Car Wash invade the domain of the high muckamucks and there's a lot of suspense. When will the SAS attack? What will happen to the hostages? Will any of the Okefenokee Glee and Perloo Society survive? The last twenty minutes shows us the flawless SAS attack. I kind of like "Black September" better.

Other people will and have commented on weaknesses in the plot line and logic. This is by no means a great movie. But on the other hand if you're channel surfing and come upon this action movie, I've seen far worse action flicks. If you can't find a decent flick you can get a few hours of mindless action flick entertainment out of this one.In some ways, in tone and pacing it kind of reminds me of the Chuck Norris/Lee Marvin flick "Delta Force". That one also dealt with a special forces group (in this case, an American unit) having to take action to rescue hostages from terrorists. But in this case, it's the British SAS troops to the rescue.