George C. Scott is Stupendous!!

Rating: 9/10 (18 April 2011)

Truly a commanding performance by George C. Scott. It is difficult to think of another biographical movie that has a portrayal as vivid and convincing as this – we feel that we are viewing the actual Patton. Scott's character has so much depth that even if you are uninterested in this epoch, you can just appreciate the range of emotions that he gives – all the way from despair to glory. Scott is all - a "Prima Donna" to a poetic war historian to being an irate insensitive general who slaps soldiers in a hospital.
The cinematography is stupendous, the soundtrack wonderful and the script by Francis Ford Coppola gives it a modern Shakespearian ambiance.