The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Dreadfully Boring

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

A big bunch of great great actors in this, actors that I love very much, specially: Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Telly Savalas, George Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine, and John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland, Richard Jaeckel, Ralph Meeker, etc. Great director, Robert Aldrich, a man who made only super films like "Emperor of the North"(with the same Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine), "The Flight of the Phoenix"(again with Borgnine and George Kennedy), "4 for Texas"(with Charles Bronson and Richard Jaeckel), "Kiss Me Deadly"(with Ralph Meeker), "Vera Cruz"(with Bronson and Borgnine again), "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"(with the great Bette Davis). Great film, super action, well directed, well acted, one of the most popular film of all time.

Lee Marvin stars in this 1967 war film based on the novel. This takes place in 1944 during WWII where we meet Army Major, John Reisman who has a slight problem with authority. Soon, he's sent to train 12 army criminals to raid a German Château. Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Donald Sutherland are among many that co-star. This is a great anti-hero/war film that influenced others like "Escape from New York" in which Borgnine is also featured. Marvin is terrific in this and the rest of the cast is great as well. I recommend this.

I loved this. Right up there with my favourite Aldrich films (though maybe 'Kiss Me Deadly' is still my number one), and of the greatest performances of both Lee Marvin and John Cassavetes (who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at both the Golden Globes and Oscars for his work here).This hearkened back to the heady times when if you got a great cast and director together, you were virtually guaranteed you'd come out of it, because of comparatively little studio interference, with a bonafide classic piece of cinema. People thought the studio system was broken and needed fixing, by films such as 'Easy Rider'? THIS, along with other fine Aldrich works from this period, age a lot better and hold up much finer today than Dennis Hopper's so-called 'masterpiece' and its ilk.

There are very few movies that I'll watch over and over again...and, this is one of them.In many ways, this movie is much like "Kelly's Heroes" (another movie I can watch over and over) in how it's a war movie, but, there are many comical parts.There are a lot of great actors in the cast of this movie as well. Veteran greats such as Lee Marvin; Ernest Borgnine; and, Robert Ryan; as well as soon-to-be greats such as Charles Bronson; Donald Sutherland; and, Telly Savalas.Spoiler alert - After all of the clowning-around and funny parts in this movie; and, how many of "The Dirty Dozen" are thought of as 'nice guys,' and, they are - the ending may be a tad hard for many people to understand in the way that it's conceived by many as cruel. So was the incendiary bombing of Dresden; and, the bombing of London, Warsaw, Stalingrad, and, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In war, many people die in many terrible ways, and, these guys didn't have a lot of time and had to do their job quickly and efficiently, and, then, get away.I've always loved this movie, and, I watch it whenever it's on. I just saw it again this past 2015 Memorial Day Weekend...I still love it! :)