Review of The Dirty Dozen (1967) by Zane U — 19 Dec 2008
I am impressed! Going into the Dirty Dozen, I was a bit wary of the 2.5 hour runtime, the "war movie" genre, and frankly the lame dvd cover art. However, it was awesome! It had a very exploitation, $1 dvd at Wal-Mart feel to it (I mean that in the best way possible) that makes sense considering Tarantino (obsessed with that kind of stuff) is said to be making Inglorious Basterds with the same feel to it.
Anyway, the film was awesome, Lee Marvin was just plain cool, and the war games and finale scenes are worth the price of admission alone. My only very very very minor gripe is that I didn't really get to learn all of, or even most of, the dozen's names so that when some of them died it lessened the impact.
I'm going to attribute that to my first-time viewing of the movie and was very inconsequential anyway.
This review of The Dirty Dozen (1967) was written by Zane U on 19 Dec 2008.
The Dirty Dozen has generally received very positive reviews.
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