Friday, February 22, 2013

Probably the best war adventure ever made













This has been one of my favorites for about as long as I've watched movies. It's brobably the best war adventure ever made and a movie I find myself comparing others of it's kind against. And as I'm a fan of Alistair MacLean's novels and as the screenplay of this was written by him, there's not much to not love about this. Now there of course are problems with this one, it's not exactly historically accurate and it does have some believability issues as it's quite a bit over the top in terms of heroistic action. So if those are things you can't get over, I'd suggest looking into other war movies, but if those are something you can live with then this is one hell of an action packed adventure. The story is intriguing to say the least, it has a fair share of twists and manages to pull out surprises even to the last minutes. Now sure it's a bit far fetched and some of the twists are borderline ridiculous, but yet it's an exciting thrill ride. Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood are tough, so tough infact that they could take down the whole Nazi army by themselves and funnily enough that has never bothered me, I belive they actually could be so tough. That boosted with great music and brilliant cinematography makes this an unbelievably magnificent movie.
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