Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This movie is definitely not PG. Check the parents guide section: contains nudity & profanity.

During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.An odd occurrence in making the film: cinematographer Christopher Challis recalled that the film was originally considered to be filmed in Pakistan until someone realized that Pakistanis did not resemble Yugoslavians or Germans and the expense to make them appear as such on film would be financially prohibitive. How do you make someone look German? Anyway, this is a good war story. Not a great war story, but a good one. And it really is sold by the strong casting. Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw, obviously, but Carl Weathers is incredible. He may be best known for "Rocky", but he always commands attention when on screen.

I thought this was a disappointing film.Not sure why Harrison Ford made it. Maybe he thought he couldn't go wrong after Star Wars but this is not a good film.Usually I like Robert Shaw as an actor but I thought he was poor in this and came across as a bit of an idiot rather than a professional sent to carry out a dangerous mission.The story about the penicillin was just ridiculous as was the story about hiding it earlier on. In real life the Nazis would have just laughed at the stupidity of it and probably shot Ford and the others.The acting is patchy and the action isn't very exciting.Overall a disappointing film with poor performances.

'Force 10 From Navarone'; except that it has nothing to do with Navarone and contains none of the original stars.A youthful Harrison Ford leads a reasonable cast featuring an embittered Negro and a couple of British characters, inevitably represented as eccentric - this time to the point of being camp. The latter is such a tiresome Hollywood pose that it might serve to explain why they always seem intent on demonstrating how America actually won the war. The British just saw it as a jolly game.This movie so blatantly trades upon the original 1960's classic that 'rip-off' is almost an understatement. But it's not the only one. We had the pukerific 'Mosquito Squadron' composed largely of out-takes from '633 Squadron' and 'The Dambusters', not to mention 'Return From The River Kwai', which had nothing to do with the River Kwai', but which - like this crap - simply traded on the name.If this movie had been simply called 'Force 10', it would have drawn the kind of indifferent response it deserved; but by grafting on 'From Navarone', it probably got twice as many bums on seats at its release.Disengaged from its pretensions; there is the substance of a decent wartime thriller here. The cast, plot, and dramatic interludes are all formulaic, but that doesn't necessarily mean dull. There's some interesting location stuff - especially within the bowels of the dam - which look well thought-out and convincing. It's just that the directorial pacing is so pedestrian, things seem to be happening at almost half-speed. That, plus the mediocre script and uninvolving characters, reduce it to a very ordinary set-piece movie. I'd like to say 'thriller', but it was just too slow. I've seen sharper documentaries. A good 30mins could have been shaved off without detriment.Worth a first watch if you haven't seen it, but not recommended; and certainly not collectible. Five to six stars is about right.