Excellent action film

Rating: 8/10 (25 May 2014)

Where Eagles Dare (1968) is not the sort of film I usually watch, but I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it. It was a great action film with epic set pieces and a script which remembers its audience has brains.
Sure, there are a lot of explosions and gun fire, but unlike so many contemporary Hollywood films, WED has fleshed out characters and, gasp, a plot with plenty of twists to keep things interesting. It remembers the audience needs to be invested in a story in order for all the action to be more than empty spectacle. Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's more than a few anachronisms, but still, this is a fun adventure.