Fantastic movie! Alan Arkin should have won a Best Actor.

Rating: 10/10 (24 February 2011)

This film did not try to recreate the book, and so it succeeded. I am happy to say that this film just keeps getting better year after year. It's hard for me to fathom that it came out 40 years ago! For me, it was another reminder (how many do I need) of the absurdity and futility of war, every war. Thank you Joseph Hellar, thank you Mike Nichols, thank you Buck Henry. And what a fantastic cast! Too bad that the film came out in the same year as MASH. But, I must say, that I find this film far superior to MASH. Whereas MASH did a good job at keeping things light, Catch 22 managed to show the absurdity of war while not shrinking from some gritty, realistic moments. Alan Arkins' scene of discovering the truth of Snowden's death (including bloody guts exposed to the cold air) is a scene I will never forget.