Sleeping Dogs [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Spain ]

Roger Donaldson's Sleeping Dogs, from New Zealand, is a very well made and acted movie about a time in the near future when New Zealand goes into a state of martial law, and underground groups form to fight against the dictatorship.

Donaldson uses precise details of Hitler's takeover of Germany and plugs them into the New Zealand setting, and then he gives us a hero who wants to sit the fight out and is publicized by the government into being a symbol of opposition.

American troops are sent in to help the New Zealanders put down the rebellion, and the rebels conduct a running guerrilla battle against them.