One of the greatest war-movies I have ever seen !!!

A war epic that is not for sissies.

More effective filmmaking from Fuller saddled by too many cornball aspects. Ranging on the cartoonish, in places.

no lack of interesting events (even with some of them being pretty absurd), but it's fiction and i don't expect total war realism from a war movie made in 1980. all the main characters are likable and well portrayed. i thought the scope of the movie was something pretty great, covering nearly every aspect of the european theater as fought by the americans.

The masterpiece of Fuller's old age. Man, this war movie has everything, including a baby born in a tank! A great Lee Marvin performance.

I really don't understand why so many people like this movie. I thought it was hokey and kind of unrealistic, not to mention completely lacking any kind of intensity.

I watched the Reconstruction. A loose collection of the bizarre.

What the hell was this. Nearly three hours of boring action set pieces overlaid by reductive propaganda. All the characters besides Lee Marvin, Liberal Conscience guy and Cigar Smoking guy blend into one another - oh right I forgot the evil German guy who stalks this particular squad across two continents and machineguns everyone who doesn't like Hitler. And, of course, the random German doctor who makes out with Lee Marvin. Hot.

Brilliant. Only let down is the misplaced use of Dirty Dozen-ish humour and music that thankfully wears off in the second half. Even Mark Hamill is good.

"The film's overriding mission is to expose both the inherent absurdity and tragedy of war." - Nick Schager

It doesn't feel as special now as it probably did in 1980 but it's still a really good film. Lee Marvin delivers a subtle but powerful performance and the film's style makes the viewer relate to the way a long war can overwhelm and make people numb.

It might be the worst war movie ever made.

Wildly uneven, it's essentially a series of vignettes from WWII focusing mostly on the absurd rather than the heroic. The dialogues often border on the ridiculous, and the script in itself isn't very polished, but Fuller's attention to morbid details and insistence upon showing the realistic, ugly and often surreal aspects of the war lend it a redeeming value, despite its lack of overall coherence.

Some elements are a little silly (the rival German officer, the lonely Nazi doctor, the insane asylum) but otherwise a good war movie, utilizing the same "vignettes" narrative style as Saving Private Ryan, among others.

Great war film.I have to point out tho that I dont think germans drove sherman tanks in WW2.

Absolute classic. Fuller may not have had the money that Spielberg had to make _Saving Private Ryan_, but this movie blows SPR right out of the water

Another great ww-II film. Historically pretty correct, no glorious hero stuff, but an interesting account of a group of soldiers from their first contact with the germans in North Africa, to the invasions of Sicily, France (d-day) and the battle of the Bulge in Belgium. This film still stands the test of time and after 20 yrs doesn't feel dated at all.

A sweeping war movie across the European and North African theater. Touches upon some very disturbing issues all soldiers may have to face, a must see.

Symbolic action drama, very well made but finally lacking a cumulative impact.