Entertaining war flick.

Rating: 8/10 (6 October 1999)

This picture shouldn't be taken seriously as a war film but does entertain. A good cast headed up by Lee Marvin in the role he's probably most remembered for. (even though he won an Oscar for Cat Ballou) A group of American G.I. convicts are offered a way out of their sentences if they volunteer for a somewhat suicide mission. They of course agree and the film highlights their training with at first reluctance and apprehension about each other and their leader Major Reisman.
Eventually they bond as best they can and go on their mission. Who makes it who doesn't? What helps keep the film going is that the locations constantly keep changing. From the prison compound to the training site to an Army base to a War game location to the mission location itself. No it's not the greatest war film ever but it is one that's always great to watch.