The curse of Alfonso Brescia strikes again! The Italian director was responsible for some of Italy's cheapest, trashiest movies during his lengthy career, and KILL ROMMEL! is an unsurprisingly cheap and cheerful addition to the cycle of Italian WW2 movies. This one's indistinguishable from many others, a men-on-a-mission movie which sees a group of American and British soldiers trekking through the desert to carry out a secret t.
The mission, as it turns out, is a complete waste of time, as is much of this movie. There are a few requisite action scenes - all of them ably handled by Brescia - but for the most part there's padding. In particular, bickering between two rival characters, which seems to go on endlessly without actually adding much to the plot line.
The authentic desert locations are one of the best things about this, along with the novelty factor of seeing Anton Diffring (typecast as a Nazi in many, many war flicks) playing a British officer for once! Sadly the rest of the dull cast can't hope to match Diffring's presence, leaving this an ultimately lame movie.
The mission, as it turns out, is a complete waste of time, as is much of this movie. There are a few requisite action scenes - all of them ably handled by Brescia - but for the most part there's padding. In particular, bickering between two rival characters, which seems to go on endlessly without actually adding much to the plot line.
The authentic desert locations are one of the best things about this, along with the novelty factor of seeing Anton Diffring (typecast as a Nazi in many, many war flicks) playing a British officer for once! Sadly the rest of the dull cast can't hope to match Diffring's presence, leaving this an ultimately lame movie.