Where Eagles Dare

Rating:
Summary: Where Eagles Dare
Review: very entertaining would love to have this movie on DVD

Rating:
Summary: Where Is The DVD?????
Review: I will begin by saying that I am a huge Eastwood fan. Then I will say I am an Alister McLean fan also. Put 2 and 2 together and you get 5 stars. Add Richard Burton to the mix and ... there just aren't enough stars. The only war film I liked better was "A Bridge Too Far". This is a movie that has it all -twists and turns, suspense, drama, some romance and a little humor. If you like war films, this one needs to be a part of your collection. After watching this film one might say "Oh, this couldn't really have happened". Pehaps, but extraordinary things did happen during WW II. I just take it for what it is - a great movie!

Rating:
Summary: (...) W.E.D. is *TOPS*
Review: (...) WHERE EAGLES DARE is one of the finest, most suspenseful war films I have ever seen. With the DVD release apparently coming soon (some time in 2002), this title will look even better. Here's hoping that the DVD has a mess o' extra features on top of the usual theatrical trailer. ---HAWK

Rating:
Summary: One of the Best
Review: Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton in the same movie. Need we say more?

Rating:
Summary: Horrible! An insult to WWII vets.
Review: With the exception of "Das Boot" I can't recall ever watching a film set in World War II and wanting the Nazis to win. But by the end of this sickening, cold-blooded exercise in casual slaughter, I was practically ready to join the Party. Possibly I have a naive sense of fair-play and a respect for at least a semblance of realism in my war movies, but I simply did not enjoy a film, even an action film, where the majority of the "action" consists of watching the "good guys" slip behind unsuspecting Germans to slit their throats, shoot them in the back or, in what may be the single most needlessly gratutiious scene in film history, boot one of them to his death from a cable car after listening to him beg and plead for mercy for what seems like fifteen minutes. What really sucks about "Eagles" is that the production values (lush, with excellent attention to costume detail and equipment), actors (Burton and Eastwood, no more need be said, plus solid support)and plot (twists until the last scene) are all quite good. It's the characters that stink. Burton ("Smith") and Eastwood ("Schiffer") are one-dimensional killers with all the charm of that knife they keep usuing to cut windpipes. An action flick should never allow you to identify with the enemy -- especially in the film like this, where the body count is in the low hundreds, but many of the kill scenes look more like Jason Voorhees at work at Camp Crystal Lake than "The Longest Day." When they lure the hapless, unsuspecting German helicopter pilot into the shed and slit his throat, I felt like I was watching a murder. Furthermore, the battle scenes have all the realism of a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Honestly, the Cylons on "Battlestar Galactica" were smarter than the German soldiers in this film. It does zero justice to the 450,000 Americans who died in the war to make it look like all we needed was Eastwood and Burton. If you like slam-bang action that defies logic, watch "Raiders of the Lost Ark" or "The Magnificent Seven." If you like cartoon violence in war films, watch "Bataan." If you like this kind of crap, just go rent "Faces of Death" and be done with it.

Rating:
Summary: Ditch the Chopper
Review: I loved this movie. It has commandoes, action, suspense, everything. I'm not very good at reviews unless I have a complaint. Here it is. The helicopter. It may not bother some people, but it bothers me, just because I take an interest in various types of aircraft. Anyone who knows anything about helicopters will recognize it as an American helicopter, not German, and totally wrong for the period. But that's the only mosquito on the camping trip. It's no reason not to pitch the tent. Buy the film, and enjoy!

Rating:
Summary: Good World War II Action Film
Review: From start to finish, "Where Eagles Dare" is packed with action. A small band of English soldiers are picked to infiltrate a Nazi-held castle set high on a mountain peak, in order to rescue an American general being held captive there. The scenery is stunning, the acting is good, the action flows fast and furious, and there really is a story going on, and not just an excuse for an action movie.

Rating:
Summary: Where Eagles Dare is a must own classic!
Review: This is one of the best WW2, spy, suspense, double-agent movie ever made. If you are a person sentimental to classic espionage-secret mission type movies then, trust me, just buy it. (and the book by Alistair Maclean too.) All time classic! (plus, Clint Eastwood as a young man. He plays the part of a spy for: America? Britian? Germany?... Simply Great!!) And nothing needs to be said about Richard Burton... Fantastic!

Rating:
Summary: Action Packed war movie!
Review: Alright so this movie in question, i.e., Where Eagles Dare VHS~Clint Eastwood, does not depict an authentic event during the war and it does not serve as a reminder of how the war really was. But as an action packed war movie it is quite entertaining. The story is focuses on a group of American soldiers whom have been given the assignment to rescue an Allied General whom has been hold as POW in a Nazi mountain stronghold. Eastwood is amazing in his portrayal of the tough and rough soldier and Burton is by no means a slouch in his role either. Highly Recommended.

Rating:
Summary: HEROIC ACTION WELL DISPLAYED
Review: Richard Burton & Clint Eastwood despite different acting methods
& Techniques deliver grand scale performaces in this taunt
well done action thriller. The plot begins when British intelligence summon a covert opretive for a important mission
in Nazi controlled Europe. A team of British Commandos led by
Major Smith(Burton) must find the U.S General before he reveals
top secret information about the D-DAY invasion into German
Teritory. Parachuted into Southern Baveria near the `Castle Of The Eagles` a remote mountain fortress where the general is
being held captive. Trouble soon arises for Major Smith when members of his unit start getting killed in suspious circumstances, Lt. Schaffer(Eastwood) the only American in the unit is baffeld on why he is invovled in a British Intellgence
operation and the true purpose of the enitre mission.

Based On the classic ALastair Maclean novel this film often gets
confused With THE GUNS OF THE NAVARONE with it`s same story
& Concept. Richard Burton taking a break from his ususaly
more seroius acting roles to take on a role which requires more
of a macho no-nonsense type of acting. Clint Eastwood who at
this time was just hitting his acting peak didn`t seem in high
sprits with this film. And with each passing scene it looked
like he wanted to walk off the set, and leave everything up
to Burton who was getting more screen time and basically the
film did ride on his excellent performance. A little bit long
well over two hours but worth it from the great action abord
the icy mountain top to the climatic finale.