Macho classic is weirdly boring

Rating: 3/10 (11 May 2011)

Robert Aldrich, about as lively a director as ever made a movie in Hollywood, Hit pay dirt with this expensive, widely far-fetched WWII Yarn. Perhaps it's his attempts to bring "realism" to the story is makes the thing so dull and confused. The screenplay seems to try to hard to avoid cliché ridden characters, the results are simply interesting actors stuck in neutral, though Telly Savalas gives a terrible performance, maybe for the only time.
As always with the subversive Aldrich, some liberal instincts kick in, the regular army Military Brass are seen as idiots and bullies. "Lover" is used as a stand in for the F word. If you can't get enough of this stuff, you'll probably love it but by the time Jim Brown took his celebrated run I was ready to snooze.