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The Guns of Navarone
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The Guns of Navarone

1961
Drama, Action
2h 38m
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Avg Percentile 61.14% from 839 total ratings

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Rated 16 Jan 2010
75
44th
Solid and entertaining, if a little unremarkable. The story's fine though the film could be paced much faster without losing anything, which would increase the tension. Everything else is ok too, not a lot of depth but nothing much to complain about.
Rated 20 Mar 2010
75
73rd
Like PeaceAnarchy said, not much to complain about but unremarkable on the whole.
Rated 02 Jun 2007
90
86th
Damn good WW2 adventure film. Another example of how it pays to have a really good script before you start shooting
Rated 01 Sep 2007
81
81st
Very Good
Rated 12 Dec 2010
62
56th
Really well made and performed war adventure. A Sunday afternoon type film.
Rated 30 Oct 2014
76
70th
the roaring adventure parts are so riveting that im left a little bored when there's nothing super adventurous going on. entire cast does a great job, especially peck although niven really pulls it all out in his scene near the end and pretty much steals the show right then and there out from under peck.
Rated 24 Feb 2007
50
35th
Not bad.
Rated 22 Apr 2007
64
30th
good film but sure pure idiotic english army film.Good cast but no spirit no efection on people...
Rated 28 Sep 2007
80
74th
Great--except for the part when Gregory Peck goes postal toward the end. You'll never question why he's so wooden all the time ever again.
Rated 02 Apr 2008
76
74th
"Close your eyes, think of England and pull the trigger!" Classic for a reason, if not best in class then certainly top ten percent.
Rated 30 Sep 2008
35
46th
Die Dummen deutschen...
Rated 16 Nov 2008
80
90th
Nice
Rated 16 Sep 2009
77
62nd
A lengthy, but generally satisfying movie with easily apparent quality control errors although those are also easily ignored for some dated, but relevant war/action.
Rated 08 Sep 2011
83
77th
Really more an adventure film than a serious war film. But it's pretty solid adventure. The action scenes are well crafted, and there's a nice ebb and flow of tension in the script. Peck is wooden as ever, but David Niven is a lot of fun and Anthony Quinn's got some chops too. I also have to applaud the Tiompkin score, appropriately epic-sounding without being too bombastic. The character moments feel very constructed, but it's of little concern. Good quality entertainment without much depth.
Rated 18 Dec 2011
35
90th
"David Niven is the subservient but stylish chemist Miller, rounding out a film that ranks among the best war movies." - Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
Rated 13 Feb 2012
51
35th
Hasn't aged well. The final 20 minutes are great but most of the time it's so slow and badly staged that it makes 'Where Eagles Dare' feel like 'Saving Private Ryan'.
Rated 10 May 2012
85
80th
85.375
Rated 13 Sep 2012
75
43rd
A well made war film that shows its age with a predictable screenplay and pacing issues.
Rated 15 Aug 2013
65
64th
A good movie to pass the time but nothing that special.
Rated 28 Dec 2013
71
86th
The double-crossing and misinformation saves this from being a hum-drum war film. Plenty of shades of grey on both sides and real emotional deliberation on what they are doing in the war. Outstanding.
Rated 23 Mar 2014
86
87th
85.500
Rated 27 Apr 2014
77
68th
One of the great WW2 classics, The Guns of Navarone left me wanting more.
Rated 04 Aug 2014
82
51st
pretty good, and has a few quips here and there
Rated 15 Oct 2014
56
48th
for the most part the usual preposterous nonsense you find in against the odds war films. It's interspersed with some good,well acted & written, scenes though
Rated 22 Dec 2015
7
57th
Gains momentum whenever the team is beating the crap out of the Third Reich. The climax in particular is an absolute delight. Everything in between, however, is mostly humdrum filler. All in all, a solid if somewhat forgettable WWII adventure.
Rated 01 Mar 2016
9
42nd
Star Rating: ★★★
Rated 29 Apr 2017
50
33rd
I'm sure I'd enjoy this if hungover on a Sunday afternoon drifting in and out of consciousness. I gave up waiting for it to start about half an hour in
Rated 25 Jun 2018
80
55th
There are a lot of really ugly day-for-night scenes and it could have been 2 hours long, but those two hours are lots of fun.
Rated 02 May 2021
65
45th
Older than me. Good cast.
Rated 07 Jan 2022
94
82nd
Classic war film, classic film cast, classic film director, classic story. Anthony Quinn kills Germans real good, man.
Rated 16 May 2022
53
53rd
Where Eagles Dare is the far more enjoyable 1960's version of "let's get some stars in Nazi uniforms undercover because they look snappy while also blowing up a lot of actual Nazis". Also for anyone who's familiar with the Moore Bond era, keep an eye out for Nazi Gogol who gets the Albert Speer treatment.
Rated 09 Jan 2023
63
67th
The pacing is god awful where the first hour or so is insanely boring. But on the second half, the films use of tension becomes its biggest strength hanging on the performances of Peck and Niven whose dynamic carries the film. On the other hand, the supporting cast is weak and its actual action scenes are mild and boring. I think this would be a much better thriller if half the movie was cut both in terms of length and cast.
Rated 17 Mar 2023
75
77th
Wonderfully old school Alistair MacLean WW2 spy film, that despite being thoroughly dated in some parts actually still holds up as a suspenseful thriller, with a great cast and some impressive saetpieces.

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