nine out of ten times I won't watch a war movie

Rating: 1/10 (30 May 2005)

The one and only reason that I wanted to see this movie was to see Tim Carey.A few articles have stated he was somewhat of a character and that Kirk Douglas became annoyed with him more than once during the filming of this picture.Seems as though Carey was accused of scene stealing especially during the long dragged out firing squad sequence.His waling's and carrying on seemed to bother the star of the movie.For that reason when Douglas was shown scowling while Carey was protesting during his death march it made me laugh,I figured he really was angry at Carey.In all fairness the scene stealing rap on Carey doesn't seem correct.Check out the distance from headquarters to the spot where the prisoners are going to be shot,it looks like a quarter of a mile.Some guy that feels he hasn't done anything wrong is taking a long walk to drums seeing those death posts draw closer oh so slowly,it's not surprising if he was beside himself.Without Carey's moaning the scene would start to fringe on boring.This movie gets a high rating from many persons even though it seems like the actions of the commanding officer go unexplained by the movie makers.Maybe I missed something but this is what puzzles...first the commanding officer states that the lost of one of his men is far more important than any promotion and he seems very serious about it.By the time he does an inspection of the trenches he is an unexplained different person,all business,without feeling for the battle weary.From there he gets worse,still unexplained he wants victory at all cost,which means bombing your own men.Then when accused of this he says it never happened.Seems as though not too much thought was given to this character,to be the bad guy is one thing,to show three faces and not stand behind any of them is another.