Complex, a lot of good acting, but not a very riveting tale, and too damn long.

It took Richard Attenborough a cast of 14 stars and a huge for these times budget of 22mil. to make this war epic. And that just shows how important good narrative for the movies is. It doesn't glorify war, it isn't biased, parachuting scenes are one of the most impressive moments in the war movies. But in the end, looking at the bunch of stiff-upper lips fighting a battle we know they won't win for three hours is just boring. Awesome recreation of grand war campaign, but an average movie.

Great classic war movie--lots of action and great acting.

So many stars its almost distracting. Still an entertaining look at the massive undertaking and ultimate failure that was Market Garden.

My favorite WAR movie !!!

A so-so war film with a strong cast to ignore. I'll have to rewatch this because I got lost at what was going on on my first time viewing.

Great flick and very influential: the entire paddling life-rafts across the river to the other side of Nijmegen bridge scene, dialogue and all found it's way onto the game Call of Duty 2 -- that was kinda cool.

Sensational cast. However there are better war flicks out there but didn't disappoint.

A couple of good scenes and decent performances, but way too drawn-out. Also, it may have been just me but I had to read up on Operation Market Garden afterwards to understand what I just saw.

Excellent entry in the all-star cast war movie genre; aided by a fine cast (with standouts Hopkins, Bogarde and Connery, though Gould feels out of place and Ullmann and Olivier's characters are given little to do) and Attenborough's fine chops as an epic film director coming to the fore in a series of well realised action scenes, combining with effective character cameos. Surprisingly downbeat, even nihilistic at times, but balanced with a very British sense of humour.

Entertaining, probably more so for WWII buffs. Great acting and action scenes. It felt like something was lacking though...

I was happy with just Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, and Anthony Hopkins. You didn't need to throw in Liv Ullmann at the end as well. The cast is indeed excellent, but the movie is, like the campaign itself, stretched far too thin. None of the characters or individual sections of the battle are sufficiently developed. We bounce around sporadically from character to character, scene to scene, without any focus or point. Like most war movies, it is not particularly engaging or insightful.

In trying to stuff every single actor into this, Attenborough forgot to give weight to any particular storyline or character. Far too dispersed to be engaging and nothing really came together - were Connery and Hopkins supposed to be in the same town? I don't know and didn't really care. Hackman's accent is horrible.

Nice sense of scale at times, but ultimately this overlong war flick drags horribly. The stories of the three groups are not cohesive enough, and not enough is done to differentiate them. Many of the characters and locations are rather generic and indistinguishable from each other so it's often unclear who is doing what, why and where. Also there is some really, really stupid writing, particularly the 10-second arrest which is basically just idiotic pandering. Somewhat disappointing film.

Mechanical and heartless.

There's not a very clear narrative in this even though it follows true events. There are so many moving pieces that being familiar with Market-Garden's almost essential and even though I have a layman's familiarity with it (before watching this movie) I still found myself lost from time to time.

I don't like Attenborough much, he might be suffering from illusions of grandeur. But the scale he takes epic to, can only be matched by early Hollywood or European movies. Cast and actor direction are the movies other highs.

Great war film.

This was based on a true story, the fisaco that Montgomery dubbed 'Market Garden'. It's a fair rendition of of that terribly planned & executed WWII offensive. After the failure of this offensive, Montgomery's role in WWII was greatly diminished.