Superficial And Glossy...Popular Pablum

Rating: 5/10 (29 January 2014)

OK, here We go. 8.3 Rating on IMDb...93% on Rotten Tomatoes...#119 in the Top 250 Films of All Time. What's the Point?...An Exercise in Futility...Spitting in the Wind...Tugging on Superman's Cape...But Let's Mess Around a Bit, just because We can.
This is one of the Most Overrated Movies Ever. John Sturgess also Directed The Magnificent Seven (1960). So there is The GREAT Escape and The MAGNIFICENT Seven, so You know where this Guy's Head is, way up there in the Clouds, Nowhere near Earth and Reality, just like this Fabrication.
Because this is Comic Book Stuff. The Director seems to have been Influenced by Stan Lee, the Creator of The FANTASTIC Four, The AMAZING Spider Man, and The INCREDIBLE Hulk. This Film is Hollywood Pablum. Glossy and Superficial.
The Acting is Average and the Star Power is Typical of these Types of Movies that Parade "Names" around on Screen and in Ads to make the Thing seem more Important than it Actually is. It is Entertaining to a Point and is Watchable because it is just so Sweet, never Achieving Anything remotely Suspenseful or Terrifying, or really Very Exciting. Can Anyone say with a Straight Face that Steve McQueen's Motorcycle Chase is Riveting Cinema.
It must also be said that Hogan's Heroes, that Long Running and Popular TV COMEDY, was Certainly Inspired by this, because when all is Said and Done, this is Nothing but a Long, Lightweight, Immensely Popular Movie Showing what Fun is to be had in a German POW Camp.