A good, well-made war movie.

Rating: 7/10 (28 May 2011)

Kelly's Heroes is a war movie that does something that other war movies didn't do before. It mixes humor with explosive action. At the start of Kelly's Heroes, Clint Eastwood, who plays the title character get information on Nazi gold in Germany from a general. This leads to a bizarre plot, a group of misfits going after Nazi gold that could worth millions of U.S. dollars. Soon enough, everybody agrees to pursue the gold. One of them is a war hippie named Oddball. He is played by Donald Sutherland, and really he is the main laughs in this film. As the movie nears the big showdown between the enemy soldiers in a Germany village, a general, played by Carroll O' Connor, from All in the Family, comes to congratulate the group of misfit soldiers. Hearing this happens, it appears the Kelly's Heroes packs a punch for action in the right place. There are good performances in Kelly's Heroes that really made you feel like you were part of the group. Clint Eastwood proves himself in this movie that he can be a action hero, even he isn't being miserable and sorrowful, but not here, he has a ball in this movie. If you haven't seen Kelly's Heroes, see it. ★★★ 3 stars.