Waste of time and money

Rating: 7/10 (10 April 2006)

Kelly's Heroes suffers on every angle. Its intended to be a war comedy, which makes it very difficult to write, and the screenplay looks as if someone spent all of ten seconds on each page. It is a poor screenplay, and a poor idea. It looks like a group of drunks got together and said, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we did this in the script", which ultimately makes for predictable, lame scenes. Even good actors would have a hard time making a poor screenplay work, but good talent often shines through. O'Conner shines as the General Patton type, chewing up the scenery, but Eastwood has never been an actor. He's been in about a hundred movies, and maybe four of them were good. He runs the usual gamut of Eastwood expressionless emotions. All one of them. Even John Wayne could make two or three expressions. But Eastwood is the worst of the worst actors. (A good director, though.) When you think of all the money and time spent on this project, for a few laughs from the future Archie Bunker, and some forgettable characters that even the best actor would have a hard time making interesting, this is truly a bomb.