Garbage!

Rating: 1/10 (22 November 2007)

This is one of the best known films with a Second World War setting. It's also one of the worst. I find it boring noisy rubbish and appallingly unrealistic. The James Bond films are a truer-to-life portrayal of the work of modern day secret agents than this is of Second World War commandos. I have to laugh at the Luftwaffe Bell 47, surely the worst ever anachronism in a WW2 film. The radio operator is listening to music that couldn't have existed before the 1960s. The scene on the airfield at the end where the bus is driven into the North American Harvards (but The Great Escape also indicated that these were used by the Luftwaffe in WW2) and they burst into flames looks daft. An outdated action thriller, popular with boys of the 1970s who built Airfix models and read Commando books and very much of its time. But given the following this film has I don't expect many people to find this comment useful.