A step out of time, flicks like this had given way to the small melodramas in the 1970s. But, a war flick with a touch of panache? why not.
That said, the casting's a bit rocky. Shaw, Fox and Franco Nero sit in one camp, solidly, while Harrison Ford, Carl Weathers, Richard Kiel et. al. just can't make the leap to the '40s.
Plus, the Sergeant Schultz Germans as buffoons characterization is tired. In this reviewers humble opinion, that diminishes the power of every WWII story - there is no challenge, no triumph if the enemy is such a band of rubes.
That said, the casting's a bit rocky. Shaw, Fox and Franco Nero sit in one camp, solidly, while Harrison Ford, Carl Weathers, Richard Kiel et. al. just can't make the leap to the '40s.
Plus, the Sergeant Schultz Germans as buffoons characterization is tired. In this reviewers humble opinion, that diminishes the power of every WWII story - there is no challenge, no triumph if the enemy is such a band of rubes.