Not a war movie

Rating: 9/10 (6 April 1999)

This is a terrific movie with excellent acting performances from everybody involved. But I don't want to classify this movie as a war movie, it's more of a biographic drama. Although the movie is a bit long it never gets boring. I read that George C Scott had made his character so near the original that a former soldier under his command just waited for him to yell at him, if that is so I think that Patton was as close to a maniac one can come without risking to be "put away" - but I must say that yet he was one of the best allied commanders during the war.