The Great Male Bonding Flick

Rating: Null/10 (18 March 2002)

Say what you want about the Dirty Dozen but it has a great story, with great characters and lots of great action.Think of almost all of the tough actors and you got them here. Marvin, Bronson, Brown, Walker, Borgnine, Ryan, Savalas and Cassavettes. Was there a better psycho than savales' Maggot? Some of these guys, like Maggot should have been hung. Others like Jefferson, were only defending themselves in a fight and ended up killing in self-defense. Most of them were redeemable. Some were not. That is part of the story. A last chance reprieve to destroy a heavily fortified German controlled chateau. As for the people who carped about them killing civilians, so what. These were probably the same people who turned in jews to the concentration camps, cheered Hitler and started the friggin war in the first place. Sometimes in war you have to be worse than the the people you were fighting and if a few enemy civiliians get in the way oops too bad and boo-hoo. Then don't start a war and support an evil leader. It's called collateral damage and believe me the dirty dozen does enough colatteral damage and then some. This isn't a movie for wussies. Truly a classic with some truly great tough guy actors in it. The Dirty Dozen gets 12 Stars!!!