WHERE EAGLES DARE (DIDIER BECU)

Rating: 5/10 (2 September 2003)

I like warmovies, especially those epics from the sixties and so I started my ride of 3 hours hoping to see some oldfashioned warscenes with American heroes and German nazibastards (cos after all that's how American warmovies are made like, not?) but "Where Eagles Dare" is more the sort of sleeping pill you can use in case the pharmacy is closed cos it's so slow that you easy can smoke a fag outside and having not missed one thing. The problems of this movie are clear : a) dull acting from both Eastwood and Burton. I like Eastwood a lot but in this movie you really can replace him by some statue. b) the story is far too complicated. All they have to do is to free a British soldier but for some reason (Alistair Maclean is the real reason) this has to be a wicked spy-story that no one understands...or it must be because I was standing outside smoking a fag. c) it's far too dated and too unrealistic. War is cruel you know but Eastwood and Burton are hanging on some cablelifts just like they're sitting in a chair, not that I'm a purist but let Stallone do that and at least he should have yelled something. d) The Germans here are portrayed as the most stupid soldiers ever, not that I care that much about it but for Eastwood and Burton these soldiers are just like some mosquitos they have to kill.... Mind you, this movie itself isn't that bad, you can even watch it but there are so many great warmovies being made that it just wouldn't be fair to rank this one along them.