Mozambique Drill - Fictional Portrayals

Fictional Portrayals

  • The technique is used as director Michael Mann's trademark, appearing in the films Heat and in Collateral.
  • In the season 2 finale of Andromeda, Captain Dylan Hunt (played by Kevin Sorbo) executes an extra-dimensional alien with the technique after hand to hand combat.
  • It is referenced briefly in the movie Planet Terror, when Lt. Muldoon (played by Bruce Willis) describes that he killed Osama bin Laden by putting "two in his heart, one in his computer".
  • The drill is referenced in the movie Black Hawk Down, in which a soldier is asked to "put two in his chest and one in his head".
  • The technique is mentioned in the television series Dexter, in which an ex-ranger uses it to murder his wife. Sergeant Doakes, himself an ex-ranger, remarks that the victim was "Mozambiqued".
  • The television series Southland has two episodes titled Mozambique and Failure Drill. The technique is explained in both, however, in "Failure Drill" Detective Lydia Adams is taught the method on the firing range and later uses it to successfully stop an active shooter later in the episode.
  • The computer game Daryl F. Gates' Police Quest: SWAT teaches the technique during the training missions at the shooting range.
  • The technique was used in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 mission, "Takedown", where an arms dealer's assistant uses it in the beginning of the mission.
  • It is used in the movie "Killers" by Tom Selleck.
  • Jim Zubiena, appeared in the episode "Calderone's Return Part 1" of the television program Miami Vice where his character employed the Mozambique Drill.

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