Awesome action flick that reinvented the genre

Rating: 10/10 (30 May 1999)

The Dirty Dozen is by far one of the best action movies of all time. It takes quite a while for the actual gunfighting to hit, but once it does, it comes with a vengeance.
This was the first "war" movie ever to not focus on the actual war, but a small section of it. These men were not going behind enemy lines to capture an enemy outpost or liberate a village , they were going in to destroy a chateau and all the Germans in it.
Good cast led by Lee Marvin, with other such standouts as John Cassevettes as Franco and Charles Bronson as Wladislaw as two of the most prominent prisoners in the group.
The film has only aged just a tad with time, but it remains an awesome movie that reinvented the genre of action. This film along with THE WILD BUNCH helped make the shootout finale now part of Hollywood culture, and it still manages to tantalize the senses.
This is a great movie about loyalty, duty, the cost of war, and even redemption.
George Kennedy: "They lost their lives in the line of duty!"