I guess I did not see the same film as the rest of you...

Rating: 1/10 (25 September 2005)

Lead-footed, preposterous video-game action before there was such a thing. There is not a funny line in the whole film, though they are trying (very hard) to amuse. The disjointed nature of the film, featuring bullet-sponge Nazis and wacky comedy, but also US Army joes getting suddenly blown up with land mines. Screwed up fire missions with friendly fire falling on US troops is treated as utter wackiness; the film was made during Viet-Nam, when similar situations plagued our real army. I found this film to be incredibly insulting, which is the main reason I gave it the one-star rating. A film has to anger me to do that.
Endless noise and over-long, childish action sequences run constantly throughout the film. The film itself has no excuse being 144 minutes; I felt myself aging in its presence.
But the final word has to be about the alleged "comedic" properties of this movie. It's one of those films that thinks volume and destruction are automatically funny. Everyone yells and pounds home the dead-on-arrival jokes with loudness, as if that alone will put some life into the writing. When Sutherland annihilates a Nazi train yard (with Nazis more inept at combat than Lucas' "battle" droids), he rides off in a tank down railroad tracks to the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad." If you think this is clever or funny, fine. It would have amused me in elementary school, but that's it.
In short, I hated this movie.