Excellent tongue-in-cheek stuff!

Rating: 10/10 (8 June 2008)

Whilst going against the genre of Where Eagles Dare, The Great Escape, The Guns of Navarone, Dirty dozen etc, this may or not be black comedy, but it's an enjoyable film nonetheless. The great Clint Eastwood followed as equally by NCO (Do they say that in the 'States?) Savalas, Sutherland et al, show what a motley crew can and will do if there's money to be made amongst the 'sideline' of WWII!
It beckons a smaller role Savalas played in 'The Battle of the Bulge', as a spiv-black market-type NCO character, turned into something bigger by this film.
Nice action scenes, especially with the dedicated nazi in his Tiger tank blowing everything up and then being humbled into turning his turret onto the bank to gain the lolly. Sutherland, being a complete nutter, often steals the show being a tank commander and a kind of 1940's 'misplaced hippy' to boot and the 'western style' approach into town by him, Eastwood and Savalas is still a treat, capitalising at this time of Eastwood's spaghetti westerns.
A rip-roaring tribute to some good American actors and a bunch of misfits making something for themselves from the war. As one of them says, I may die anyhow, but I might as well do it for me.