Lee Marvin stars as the badass Major who's peers dislike him enough to volunteer him for a suicide mission. The mission: Take 12 convicted felons into enemy territory and kill as many as possible. The major has no intentions of failing at his mission and works out a perfect plan. Can a bunch of convicts pull it off?We get to watch him meet the men, train the men, play war games, and execute the mission in this film that rightfully makes the AFI Top 100 Thrills list. We learn that most of these men were in the wrong place at the wrong time and deserve a second chance. We also learn from the army psychiatrist that these are a bunch of disturbed men. So the audience has to like them, disturbed yet with redeeming qualities.
Ernest Borgnine plays the general that handed the major the assignment. Charles Bronson and Donald Sutherland are several of the dozen.
Likely an inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, but then again The Inglorious Bastards (1978), an Italian movie could have been as well. Not the best edited action scenes, the grenades in the vents scene was just ok, and something I've seen on tv years ago when channel surfing. A very good film overall and well worth watching.
Vote: 9/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061578/
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