Hyena Road

2015
R
2h

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

9.3K

YOUR RATING

Paul Gross and Rossif Sutherland in Hyena Road (2015)

Play trailer2:07

4 Videos

32 Photos

Drama War

Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars - all stand at the intersection of modern warfare - a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems.Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars - all stand at the intersection of modern warfare - a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems.Three different men, three different worlds, three different wars - all stand at the intersection of modern warfare - a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

9.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 5 wins & 12 nominations total

Videos4

'Hyena Road': Mess Hall

Photos32

+ 27

More like this

6.4

7.1

6.3

6.1

6.5

6.6

6.8

6.2

7.1

6.4

3.0

6.5

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
The footage seen between scenes of vehicles, Afghan soldiers, etc. were actually shot in Kandahar during the final combat deployment.

Goofs
At the start of the movie the squad is in a good hide below the ridge line. When they move out the shot shows them walking down the top of the ridge perfectly silhouetted against the blue sky. It looks cool but soldiers would try not to present themselves as such a clear target. They would continue to move below the brow of the hill so as not to skyline themselves.

Quotes
Pete: Alexander the Great marched into this graveyard about 2,500 years ago. Easy to march in, hard to march out. His words. He and his mother wrote to each other all the time. One day, he got a letter from her saying: "What the hell? You conquered most of the known world in a day and a half, what are you doing bogged down in Afghanistan?" He grabbed a bag and shoveled it full of dirt and had it sent back to Greece with a message to his mother: "Take this dirt and dump it around the palace, see what happens."
Pete: So Alexander's mother spread the dirt all around the palace. Later that night, a couple of attendants showed up to make sure she was alright. One says: "Go ahead, after you." And the other says: "No, after you." And the first one says: "No, I insist." And the second one says: "Don't you tell me what to do." They pull their swords and go at it till they kill each other. Alexander's mother watched all this and wrote a note to him saying: "Okay, okay, now I get it." And he wrote back saying: "Even the dirt is hostile." In Afghanistan, dogs fight dogs, birds fight birds, men kill men.

Crazy credits
The film's title doesn't appear on screen until the closing credits.

Connections
Referenced in Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015)

Soundtracks
Play That Funky Music
Performed by Leif Garrett
Written by Rob Parissi (as Robert W. Parissi)
Courtesy of Sweet City Records Inc., o/b/o itself, and, as administrator of RWP Music
Master Recording Courtesy of Cleopatra Records Inc.

User reviews83

Review

Featured review

7/10

Big-Screen worthy

I found the film to be somewhat adrift as far as the theme and the storyline. There didn't seem to be much of a resolution, rather a way to end the film. If it's supposed to be an analogy of the current situation in Afghanistan, well we get that "It's not one war, it's a lot of little wars" message earlier on. It would make a superb pilot for a series centered around the Intel guy (Paul Gross). I found the scenes within the CP interesting: radio procedure has changed dramatically in the 40 years since I was in the infantry. But the only scene I found totally authentic was the "dance in the desert" scene. This sort of thing does happen spontaneously within a tight knit group. And the patrol procedure and snipercraft were off in my opinion. The "Ghost" character was my favorite. I liked the fact that no subtitles were used and that, like the soldiers, we had to listen to the interpreter. I would liked to have seen his character developed. The artillery scenes were authentic and dramatic, but it was the only time I've seen the gunners get a target round on the first shot. The small arms combat sequences were excellent. Total confusion like always. All in all, I enjoyed it, and I recommend it.