Beginning of an era

Rating: 7/10 (3 September 2019)

I've been meaning to watch "The great escape" for a very long time but just couldn't lay my hands on it for some reason - the fact that I've heard so much about this movie and how culturally significant it is to the world of cinema, prevented me from watching it, in fear that I wouldn't like it as much as the rest of the world. So the time has come and I did watch it.
Begins very slow and builds up for the most part for "the great escape" itself this is really a waste of a movie: almost non of the characters have a true indentity, a simple background story, even the main characters don't have a decent amount of dialogues - they are simply put there to dig, do the things they are ought to do. I've expected more from a high calibre actors like Steve McQueen or James Garner (whose performances are great by the way) but they all wear the same faces in the movie. The music is good though and even though it doesn't exactly fit to the plot and the place it is set at it makes it all the while a pleasant watch. With "The great escape" I'd say the era of so called blockbusters have began when the plot stopped playing the fiddle and the couple of big names thrown can make a difference in the pockets of those who had done the movie. Overall a good picture but nothing more and nothing in between to make it a great one.