Worthy a watch, but isn't so good.

Rating: 7/10 (19 November 2013)

Kelly's Heroes is not a funny film at all. In fact, it's kinda hard to make a war film with comedy tones. Sure Donald Sunderland cartoon esque character was weird, but not funny into the context of the film. The premise is very outdated and apparently from a Spaghetti Sergio Leone western _The Good,the bad and the Ugly_ it was to enter in a quest for gold beyond the enemy lines. The gold was hidden in a bank, of course, instead of buried in the sand.
Although it has some great moments when it isn't trying to be funny(fail). Some fight and shootouts scenes were really great. Apocalypse Now obviously got some inspirations from this film, as the scene where the mad characters play music while destroying a village.
The art design was very inconsistent. Sometimes great, sometimes poor. So were the cinematography. The filming commenced in July 1969 and was completed in December and was shot on location in the Istrian village of Viinada in the former Yugoslavia and London. Yugoslavia was chosen mostly because earnings from previous showings of movies there could not be taken out of the country, but could be used to fund the production.
The music in this film is one of the best aspects of this film so far. The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Lalo Schifrin and the soundtrack album was released on the MGM label in 1970.
This is an average film overall, but very worth watching. 7.3/10