Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Written by: Nunnally Johnson, Lukas Heller
Starring cast: Lee Marvin (Maj. John Reisman), Charles Bronson (Joseph Wladislaw), Jim Brown (Robert Jefferson), John Cassavetes (Victor Franko), Trini López (Pedro Jiminez), Telly Savalas (Archer Maggott), Donald Sutherland (Vernon Pinkley), Clint Walker (Samson Posey), Tom Busby (Milo Vladek), Ben Carruthers (Glenn Gilpin), Stuart Cooper (Roscoe Lever), Colin Maitland (Seth Sawyer), Al Mancini (Tassos Bravos)
Supporting cast: Ernest Borgnine (General Worden), Richard Jaeckel (Sergeant Bowren), George Kennedy (Major Max Armbruster) Ralph Meeker (Captain Stuart Kinder), Robert Ryan (Col. Everett Dasher Breed), Robert Webber (General Denton), Robert Phillips (Corporal Morgan)
What's it rated?: Not Rated (I'd give it a PG-13 for intense moments of terror, violence, blood, gore and some language)
Genre: Action, War
Synopsis: Major Reisman already has quite a reputation as a rough-and-tumble, crude, unrefined soldier and when he's "volunteered" to train a group of military criminals to the meanest commandos in the military, things can only get worse for him.
My Take: As usual I have to start of with a disclaimer. Basically, not only does this movie paint the military in a bad light in several locations, but the biggest thing is that one of the Dirty Dozen claims to be the administer of "God's judgment" and, of course, he is a murderous racist bigot.
After that, if you like a great action movie with some pretty good humor thrown in, the Dirty Dozen is for you.
In my opinion, the story was pretty good. It was a little long because of the first training mission at the War Games, but pretty good overall. The humor was OK. It wasn't supposed to be funny lines or actions, but more situations. They try to make you laugh at the methods that the Dirty Dozen use in their training and in their missions.
Well, that's pretty much it. Once again, beware of the anti-God Hollywood message in movies.
Story: 7 out of 10
Action: 8 out of 10
Humor: 6.5 out of 10
Overall: 6 out of 10
2 comments:
Graydon your crazy! that was a great moivie and you should have givein it at least a 7 or 8.
It was funny action filled and it had a great story. It did have one or two bad parts, but still a great movie!
Sure, there were some funny parts, but I take the bad as well as the good into account. You can't get past the fact that the only "religious" one in the group was a fanatic that took it upon himself to murder people because "God told him to". That, I can't accept.
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