The German Job.

Rating: Null/10 (22 October 2004)

Contains Spoiler. This film was made because "The Italian Job" bombed in The States. It is essentially a remake of that film for Americans who want to watch a war movie. It is not a film about WWII, unless WWII happened in the 60s. Donald Sutherland plays a hippie. (D.S. also in more recent remake of Italian job:- not a coincidence.) All that aside, a film to watch in the company of a few beers; excellent musical score and some wonderful set pieces. Only jarring note is the massacre of German soldiers, once in a scene where Telly Savalas visibly grieves for one dead American after killing several dozen Jerries; and again in later scene when the last surviving German Tank crew join up with the Americans who killed all their mates. On the other hand the Railway scene works because it is just so surreal, and has no inappropriate scene immediately following it. Marks are 9/10 for entertainment, and 7/10 for authenticity; not because it is authentic, but because it looks as if it might be.