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Summary: Underrated?
Review: I admit I have had a soft spot for this movie ever since I saw it during its theatrical run when I was 8 which is why I give it four stars instead of three. But I've always felt it is a fun action-adventure film with a great cast and fantastic vistas of the Yugoslavian countryside. Critics have lambasted it as being a highly inferior sequel to one of the classic war movies of the 60's, and maybe some of that criticism has some merit. Yet "Force 10 from Navarone" as viewed on its own merits without the comparisons to "Guns" is not too shabby. A straight-foward action story of an Allied force consisting of two British commandoes (Robert Shaw and Edward Fox), an American Ranger (Harrison Ford), and an escaped American prisoner (Carl Weathers) trying help Yugoslavian partisans blow-up a bridge to foil a German offensive. It's not Oscar material, but it is fun and definetly not as bad as the critics claimed.
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Summary: Force 10 From Navarone...A Pleasant Surprise!!
Review: FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE is most notable for its diverse and international cast from the late Robert Shaw (JAWS, THE STING), Harrison Ford (need we list his films), Edward Fox, Carl Weathers (ROCKY I,II,III,IV), Barbra Bach (THE SPY WHO LOVED ME), Richard Kiel (THE LONGEST YARD), and Franco Nero (DIE HARD II). A British and American Commando Force are dispatched to destroy a bridge in Nazi occupied Yugoslavia with a side mission to kill a double agent. Not exactly a sequel to the classic Gregory Peck film. Supposedly two of the characters are lifted from the the original story (based on a Allister Maclean novel) and Navarone is miles away in this movie. However, the characters are engaging, distinct, and have good rapport. The film has pretty good war time action, dialogue, tense moments and a couple of surprises. Overall very entertaining war movie for its period.
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Summary: force 10 uncut is not for my kids
Review: I love this movie. I have seen it many times on television but when I rented it I was suprised to see that this rated PG movie had full frontal female nudity. I was lucky that I wasn't watching it with my kids. I really don't understand how a pg movie can have this but its there. Just a warning in case any parents are considering it for a family war movie like I was. After all war is a good family history lesson.
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Summary: Great WWII action movie!
Review: First off, I enjoy anything having to do with World War II. I remember seeing this movie as a kid before I saw the original "Guns of Navarone." I was flipping channels last night and saw that "Force 10" was on. I watched it and remembered how much I enjoyed it the first time. Not only does this film focus on a remote battlefield (remote in the sense that it's not a Normandy or anything you might have seen in "Patton"), but it provides an exciting story that the viewer just can't forget. After so many years, I fondly remembered Carl Weathers' knife fight with that big guy (the name escapes me, but he played the character Jaws in two Bond films), the amusing explosives expert Miller, and all the crazy twists and turns that took the commandos to their final objective - destroy a dam to destroy a bridge. (What I never understood, though, was why didn't the Germans just have their armored and infantry divisions cross the dam rather than face hostile fire on the bridge from the Partisans!). Anyhow, the film is great. They just don't make movies like this anymore. Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw (and the rest) make a great team, best shown when they walk cavalierly away from that ticking bomb that's about to explode in the dam! Yes, a great war flick that I highly recommend and rank right up there with the best.
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Summary: Fun enough to be entertaining
Review: There was no reason to declare this a sequel to "Guns of Navarone." There was no reason even to have the word "Navarone" in the title, since the movie goes nowhere near the location of the first movie. The story is ludicrous (of course), the special effects cheesy (the oh so phoney-looking flood that destroys the bridge), a post-Star Wars Harrison Ford barely registers as a character and Carl Weathers plays Apollo Creed again, this time in Army green. Most of the other actors are pretty good, Robert Shaw and Edward Fox especially, and Barbara Bach looks luscious (and as a bonus, she gets about as naked as you can get in a PG-rated movie). In short, this movie is clearly inferior to the original "Navarone" as well as other MacLean-inspired movies like "Where Eagles Dare" and "Ice Station Zebra." Inferior doesn't mean bad, but it's still the worst movie that I've ever seen more than 5 times.
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Summary: Great WWII action movie!
Review: First off, I enjoy anything having to do with World War II. I remember seeing this movie as a kid before I saw the original "Guns of Navarone." I was flipping channels last night and saw that "Force 10" was on. I watched it and remembered how much I enjoyed it the first time. Not only does this film focus on a remote battlefield (remote in the sense that it's not a Normandy or anything you might have seen in "Patton"), but it provides an exciting story that the viewer just can't forget. After so many years, I fondly remembered Carl Weathers' knife fight with that big guy (the name escapes me, but he played the character Jaws in two Bond films), the amusing explosives expert Miller, and all the crazy twists and turns that took the commandos to their final objective - destroy a dam to destroy a bridge. (What I never understood, though, was why didn't the Germans just have their armored and infantry divisions cross the dam rather than face hostile fire on the bridge from the Partisans!). Anyhow, the film is great. They just don't make movies like this anymore. Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw (and the rest) make a great team, best shown when they walk cavalierly away from that ticking bomb that's about to explode in the dam! Yes, a great war flick that I highly recommend and rank right up there with the best.
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Summary: very mediocre
Review: Passes the time, that's all. Notable that the Partisans (Communist anti-nazis) are portrayed as purely heroic, while the Chetniks (anti-communist anti-nazis) are shown as purely evil. In fact the film portrays the Chetniks as in essence a German auxiliary force--very very few historians would agree with that idea. But then, if you're filming on location in a Yugoslavia under Marshall Tito's communist dictatorship I guess you have to toe the local ideological line. Hey, it's only a movie, right?
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Summary: Fair story, great stars.
Review: This is before H Ford became Han Solo and includes Robert Shaw a long under-rated screen presence. The story was slow moving so I could give it no more than 3 stars to in spite for these 2 stars being in it.
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Summary: highly spiritual movie
Review: It amazes me how people, fail to seewhat movies are really about.I choose to remain anonymous.I`m tired of being nuked by those whoare unreasonable. This movie Is about a major [shaw]who is ordered to do something he doesn't want to do [ hunt down and kill a traitor] no one is concernedabout his struggles. He [shaw] has to deal with clueless colonel [ford]a showie demoltions man and a A.W.O.L.non-com who tags along.It`s one of best studies of the stupidity of war,I've seen. Something"The Guns of Navarone" Tries to do butnot as well as 'Force 10' does. The best part is THIS MOVIE IS FUN TO WATCH.
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Summary: So-so
Review: A band of soldiers in WWII go behind German lines to blow up a dam. The whole production is rather stiff and cheap, with a creaky script that depends upon a lengthy string of unlikely coincidences for its plot twists. It's remarkable how, with a rather large territory to wander about in, key characters just happen to encounter each other at the right moments. It benefits from some fun performances from Robert Shaw and Edward Fox and a kind of retro feel to it that makes it seem like a film that could have been made twenty years earlier.
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