THE DIRTY DOZEN's male-pandering slant might take some shine off its conventional appeal as a devil-may-care entertainment

Rating: 7/10 (13 March 2020)

"But before that preposterous, patly formulated, but unsettlingly vicious climax, the film is actually brimming with lulz in its military drilling process of assessing, bonding and carousing, a gripping momentum never slacks, culminating in a stock victory of a rag-tag of underdogs punching above their weight to outfox regular soldiers during the war games in England, by that time, audience may even begin to invest in those hardened criminals with a smattering of compassion, not least to Robert T. Jefferson (Brown), the sole black prisoner whose commission is as per spurred by racism, and it is indeed him, who is designated to tackle the most dangerous job in the money shot."
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