Rating of
3/4
An excellent movie
The M.O.W. - wrote on 08/01/08
"The Dirty Dozen" is a classic World War 2 movie where Academy Award winner Lee Marvin plays a US Major who is ordered to put together a unit made of imprisoned US soldiers, most whom are on Death Row, and train them for a Top Secret mission to infiltrate a well-guarded château and kill the Nazi officials who are there.
The movie was wonderfully directed by Robert Aldrich and Nunnally Johnson. Both used every angle they could find to film the scenes. None of which seemed to be at odd angles.
The all-star cast is equally incredible. Not one of them put in a poor performance, or uttered a line poorly. Each put in a great performance worthy of an award in my opinion. The only bad part is many of the cast are in roles I would have liked to have seen more of.
One of the best parts of this movie is the visuals. The best of them are undoubtedly the battle that ensues at the château at the end. There were not many quick edits that seemed out of place. The presentation of explosions were also well done, and seemed to me to be the appropriate size -- then again, I'm no munitions expert.
The only problem I personally have with this movie is the use of racial slurs. There aren't many of them, I just think they could have done without them in the script. Despite that small problem, the script is well written, and holds up to this day.
Overall, this is one of the best movies I have seen in some time. I recommend that this is one of your first choices the next time you go to your local video rental store.
