Weird movie. James Coburn, playing Lee Marvin, is the killingest grunt, the man of the people. Maximilian Schell is the snotty patrician officer. Both are fighting for Germany in WWII, but don’t call either of ’em a Nazi. Whenever the storyline gets too predictable there is another wildly edited sequence, usually involving slo-mo explosions and cartoonish screams of terror. David Warner and James Mason have a go-nowhere subplot and God knows what the message of this film is, but I do recommend it.
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Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
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