Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by jbmcb (A) on March 08, 2005 at 10:51:25

Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton, but not in that order :)

Saw it on my friend's excellent HT setup.

Plot is OK, relatively plausible given what we know about the crazy schemes the intelligence services came up with back then. Action scenes were pretty good, which is important as this is an action movie. Acting was pretty good, some supporting cast could have been better, but most get killed off fast enough to not matter.

The biggest problems were the little ones. The operation is put together by MI6, though, IIRC, it wasn't commonly called MI6 until after the war. The Germans somehow obtained a 50's vintage Bell helicopter. (Helicopters were around back then, but pretty experimental, I don't think top brass would be flying around in them)
The German actors bounce between German and English, almost at random. It becomes distracting. The movie also suffers from exploding car syndrome, where autos are, apparently, made out of napalm, and explode into a giant fireball if you hit them anywhere with bullets. In this movie the effect extends to the people in the cars as well.

Overall an enjoyable, semi-dumb war/action movie. Not on the calibre of the Dirty Dozen, but fun nonetheless.

60/100 on my absolute scale (100 is the perfect action movie)

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