Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Feb 05 '12
Pros: Marvin, Brown, well-paced
Cons: unpleasantness
Summary: 1967’s The Dirty Dozen directed by Robert Aldrich (Attack!; Whatever Happened to Baby Jane) was the 5th most popular movie of the year. 1967-Summer of Love, Hello Lamp Post, what'cha doin’-- ...
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Mar 28 '11
Pros: A classic war film that delivers on all levels.
Cons: Like they say in SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE...Jim Brown. I can't say more.
Summary: What is a "man movie"? Well if there are "chick flicks" why can't there be "man movies"? Movies that mostly guys like because of the macho type characters but that women on the rare occasion like to...because of the hunks on screen. Anyway, to ...
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Apr 14 '07
Pros: Cast, characters, machismo, direction
Cons: Some of the cast more memorable than others
Summary: An anti-authority Army Major (Lee Marvin), is assigned by no-nonsense General Ernest Borgnine, the task of choosing and training twelve military prisoners- murderers, rapists and nutcases on either heavy jail or death sentences- for a top-secret WWII ...
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May 27 '05
Pros: The cast, script and visuals.
Cons: A few racial slurs, but not many.
Summary: "The Dirty Dozen" is a classic World War 2 movie where Academy Award winner Lee Marvin plays a US Major who is ordered to put together a unit made of imprisoned US soldiers, most whom are on Death Row, and train them for a Top Secret mission to ...
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Sep 29 '03
Pros: Battle scenes, great cast
Cons: myriad inaccuracies, disturbing scenes
Summary: You know, when your Dad is retired army officer, and a veteran of both WWII (Pacific Theater) and the Korean War, it kinda takes the fun out of watching war movies. Because you quickly learn just how much of these pictures are unmitigated male bovine bo ...
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Jun 27 '01
Pros: action, realistic, funny at times, good acting
Cons: if you don't like morally ambiguous films, avoid this one
Summary: The Plot (only minor spoilers):
The premise is simple and not implausible at first: Train twelve convicted G.I. criminals (many of whom would otherwise hang) and parachute them into a German officers' chateau in France on the eve of D-Day....
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Feb 16 '01
Pros: Satire of Army brass; nobility lent to their characters by Bronson and Brown
Cons: War is probably more often like this than most of us would like to admit.
Summary: The above line is an order given by Lee Marvin (playing the leader of the Dozen) after a number of domestics and low-level Wehrmacht aides have been rounded up by the commandos coming in from the balcony. To his credit, the soldier who received the...
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Jan 18 '01
Pros: some action, a premise with which something good could have been done
Cons: "Heroics" are unconscionable.
Summary: The Dirty Dozen fails because it has no heroes. There's lots of improbable action, tough-guy dialogue and macho posturing, but the movie is no fun because at the end we should be able to applaud the American good guys. Instead, our ...
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Apr 24 '00
Pros: Great build up, superb ensemble acting
Cons: Wildly improbable, a touch violent
Summary: As the American and Commonwealth armies prepared in early 1944 for the cross-channel invasion of France, the Allied high command realized that the success of the operation would depend in large part on confusing and disrupting the German chain of...
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Apr 13 '00
Pros: Marvin, Cassavettes, Script, Supporting Cast
Cons: None
Summary: Since I reviewed "Where Eagles Dare", I have to review the mother of all WWII action adventure flicks, "The Dirty Dozen"! It is a tremendous work worthy of respect, just as many other incredible tales have been. It is not in the...
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Apr 09 '00
Pros: cast, action, direction
Cons: cartoonish characters and story, violent
Summary: The Dirty Dozen remains a highly popular war film, several decades after its release. Its enduring legacy comes partly from its ensemble cast, which includes many familiar faces. But the film's main appeal is probably from Robert Aldrich's...
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Dec 29 '99
Pros: Great war flick
Cons: Nothing wrong with this one unless you count shooting Germans.
Summary: There's only one "Dirty Dozen", and Lee Marvin is the leader of the pack. When the government arranges to let 12 men out of life or death sentences from a military prison they become a special combat force engaged in blowing up a German...
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Dec 16 '99
Pros: Making of MEN
Cons: unbelievable
Summary: This is one of my favorite movies of all time . It not only makes you wonder about the smarts of the powers that be but also about the people who have to fallow the orders that are given to them. How can someone take slime balls and make a crake...
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