Slaughter and Violence

Rating: Null/10 (8 April 1999)

"The Dirty Dozen" is a horrible film and maybe Aldrich´s worst.
American Criminals are trained to kill and in fact they manage to destroy a nazi-headquarters. They slaughter all men and women inside with hand grenades and finally burn them alive. One of the most violent and cynical movies I´ve ever seen. It glorifies war as a gentlemen´s game and if women appear in the film they are shown as objects only designed to satisfy the sexual needs of soldiers. I cannot understand the popularity of this movie which sometimes is called a "classic". There are good and there are bad war movies, "The Dirty Dozen" is a splatter-movie. Even worse is the huge number of sequels.