Franco made this movie

Rating: Null/10 (30 November 2002)

This was a very good war movie. I was a little troubled by two things though.....the gasoline being poured on the wives and girlfriends of the German officers, although I guess it could be considered one of the casualties of war, and the stereotyping of the psychotic Maggot as a religious white Southerner. Hollywood seems to have a problem with religious white southerners usually portraying them as rapists, murderers, and all around bad guys. My favorite character in the film was John Cassavetes' Victor Franco though. Cassavetes played the role to perfection. But that's not taking anything away from Lee Marvin's or Charles Bronson's performances. They were also flawless and I still laugh at Donald Sutherland's portrayal as the class idiot of the Dirty Dozen. All in all it was a very good film.