There is only one reason to watch this -- GEORGE C. SCOTT!!!

Rating: 8/10 (15 December 2011)

Yes, the movie is long. But George C. Scott is such a firecracker in this one that you can't take your eyes off the dude. The man at times seems totally off his rocker and that only adds to the beauty and dynamic of the whole movie. I mean when the war ends Patton says "All good things must come to an end". Anybody who says something like that I really gotta know what they're smoking. Seriously, this isn't even a war movie. It's a character study. It's basically the George C. Scott show from first scene to last. And he owns every single frame of every single minute of this movie! You'll rarely find a cinema badass like Scott's Patton. I can't imagine anyone in 1970 who was more deserving of the Oscar than George C.