A Bridge too Far

Rating: 5/10 (23 February 2019)

The story of Operation Market Garden where the allies tried to creep into Holland to get to Germany - and the need to hold 9 bridges to achieve this.
Christened 'an hour too long' on its original release, this is 3 hours of strategic conversations and battle scenes interspersed with one or two stand alone scenes of some quality - Caan trying to save his buddy, Fox driving past his troops. Attenborough pulled together a quite extraordinary cast, for no apparent reason other than box office drawer with the result that most performance are uninspiring with only Connery, Fox, Hopkins and Bogarde able to have the time to deliver solid turns.
Overall unremarkable and not a little dull.