classic Hollywood trash

Rating: 2/10 (22 January 2010)

What a dreadful load of old tosh.
I have not seen this pot boiler for 25 years and now wish I had left it that way. Typical Hollywood (I am using the term broadly due to the British influence) of the era - actors with the wrong looks, the wrong style and the wrong plot, saying the wrong things while pretending to be secret agents pretending to be Germans ( I might add in the presence of cardboard cut out enemies - well they seem this way given their depth and believability) strolling through a movie with perhaps the most improbable plot since the war actually occurred. Don't you love the way the allied agents are all said to speak German perfectly but in the film are actually speaking English complete with their native accents while the nasties (opps sorry, I mean the Nazis) all speak with faux German accents. Pooooo. This pongs to high heaven and I found the entire set up to be dreadfully off putting. Take Clint Eastwood for example, he not only sounds like a yank but looks and behaves like one too, complete with a 1960-1970s era haircut. And its not only him. The bloke playing the Gestapo villain looks and sounds like a spiv complete with a wavy blond haircut. He eternally looked as if he just had a perm and rinse.
And what about the Germans flying around in a 1960's helicopter. Ouch.
This movie truly deserves the rotten egg award. Rubbish. Still, perhaps this is where Quentin Tarantino got his ideas for Inglorious Basterds.