One helluva a movie.

Rating: 9/10 (1 July 2004)

Call me weird, but I've had a thing for Lee Marvin since I was 12 years old. "The Dirty Dozen" is possibly his best film. The basic scenario is great: take a bunch of misfit prison inmates and offer them the choice of continuing their jail sentence/death penalty or a joining a military mission, after which--if they survive (and the chances are slim)--they will be free.
Full of great "character" actors, the film is as much about the characters as it is about the action. Although not as gritty as later war dramas, there is one scene in particular that demonstrates the ugly reality of war.
I really liked it--and I'm not a guy!