Simply Great WW II Action Pic!

Rating: Null/10 (9 April 2004)

This will be the shortest review I've ever written.
Where Eagles Dare was, hands down, my favorite movie as a kid. I just watched it for the first time in 30 years. I now realize I had great taste as a kid.
This action flick with the trio of Burton/Eastwood/Ure smokes. A wild, bullet ridden, dynamite ride with breathtaking location shots of the Austrian alps and over 2 1/2 hours of non-stop action filled with double and triple agents and enough implausible sequences to make you smile and gasp all at the same time. I'll take this over the bulk of action/adventure movies I've seen in the last decade. Also interesting to see Eastwood so young and in a movie out of his normal element.
Simply Great!
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