Stilted dialog interrupted by gratuitous gunfire

Rating: 4/10 (7 January 2005)

Very dated WWII star vehicle for Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. An elaborate commando raid on a secret German base, full of supposedly spellbinding plot twists. Fake looking sets, pedantic tempo, badly written dialog, implausible action, pointless carnage, insipid drama, set to exaggeratedly heroic music. One brief unsexy sex scene, otherwise the blonde is mostly gun toting eye candy. Supposedly German soldiers salute American style. Grenades are thrown and take 15 seconds to go off. A supposedly German plane is actually a Ford Trimotor. The Germans land at their secret base in a Bell helicopter not manufactured until 15 years after the war. And on and on. Doesn't really deserve a 4, but I like Clint Eastwood.