Superb Action Entertainment

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2002)

I feel that a large number of reviewers are completely missing the purpose of this film.
Why do we watch films? Because we want to be entertained!
Does it matter if several thousand heavily armed German soldiers cannot shoot the side of a barn? Who cares if helicopters hadn't been invented? Does it really matter that Richard Burton has a bottomless bag of explosives and barely flinches when he gets shot? (I laughed until it hurt when he merely wrapped a hankie round his hand and carried on as if nothing had happened!).
This film sets out to entertain and it succeeds brilliantly. The music is superb and the acting is appropriately hammy (especially from the Gestapo officer complete with comedy accent).
I have yet to see a film which is remotely realistic and I'd like to keep it that way!
10 out of 10.

Also recommended: "Fear Is The Key"; "Book of Life", and "Sons of the Desert".