The Dirty Dozen is a nitty gritty, superstar loaded world war II thriller about an Army Major (Lee Marvin) who has to take 12 convicted felons on a mission to destroy a German headquarter fortress.
From the beginning you are driven into Lee Marvin’s disrespect for higher authority. He can’t stand bureaucracy, red tape and the inability to get the job done. This, he thinks, is why he is assigned this god forsaken mission.
After selecting his 12 disciples to ride the mission out, he sets up a training camp for them and begins his road to inevitable destruction.
Each felon has his own personality and deviance from Telly Savalas to Charles Bronson they all try to break the Major in one way or another. During the training, though, they begin to see that working as a team is better than working as an individual entity and they start seeing that this mission may be possible.
To test his troops, he leads them on a war games exercise bidding his 12 against a regime of top quality troops only to come out on top by taking control of the command post rather than trying to eliminate the outnumbered troops.
Eventually, they are in the midst of an all out battle in the heart of German territory. The battle is fierce, the guns are loud and the German’s are, well, German’s.
It’s a feisty movie with a lot to watch and no dull moments.
Recommended with a rating of 7.9 out of 10.
From the beginning you are driven into Lee Marvin’s disrespect for higher authority. He can’t stand bureaucracy, red tape and the inability to get the job done. This, he thinks, is why he is assigned this god forsaken mission.
After selecting his 12 disciples to ride the mission out, he sets up a training camp for them and begins his road to inevitable destruction.
Each felon has his own personality and deviance from Telly Savalas to Charles Bronson they all try to break the Major in one way or another. During the training, though, they begin to see that working as a team is better than working as an individual entity and they start seeing that this mission may be possible.
To test his troops, he leads them on a war games exercise bidding his 12 against a regime of top quality troops only to come out on top by taking control of the command post rather than trying to eliminate the outnumbered troops.
Eventually, they are in the midst of an all out battle in the heart of German territory. The battle is fierce, the guns are loud and the German’s are, well, German’s.
It’s a feisty movie with a lot to watch and no dull moments.
Recommended with a rating of 7.9 out of 10.
1 comment:
I loved this movie, too. In a war where the enemy is clearly defined with uniforms and geographic headquarters, you can just go smack them down. These (dozen) guys did it the right way. This may have been the forerunner of "Mission Impossible". I liked your review of that movie, too. Gun.
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