Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

writers_reign This film stands up remarkably well after half a century and the casting separates the men from the boys in the sense that the real actors like Robert Ryan went on getting work for years afterwards while the flavor-of-the-month school like Telly Savalas plus the out-and-out novelty castings like Trini Lopez enjoyed a mayfly moment and then found their natural level. It was a workable idea and movies with numbers - The Magnificent Seven, Ocean's Eleven - tended to score by a combination of potent names and a decent script. This is no exception and it has another factor going for it i.e. the three stages; 1) Recruitment, 2) Training, 3) the caper and/or mission, all designed to generate interest segueing into suspense. Whilst it can be faulted if one puts ones' mind to it it is also easy to score it eight out of ten for all three stages.

Dan1863Sickles Everyone talks about this movie like it's a classic -- and it is. But the strange thing about The Dirty Dozen is that all the great moments happen in the first two thirds of the movie. The training scenes and the arguments between the men are all much more suspenseful, dangerous, and realistic than anything that actually happens when they finally go into combat. The one scene that always grabs me time after time is the scene where the super tough Major, played by Lee Marvin, bullies the big, simple guy (the one they call Posey) into attacking him with a knife. This scene is so real that it's like something out of Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men. It's the kind of thing just about every guy has seen or experienced in life, on the playground, in the locker room, wherever. And yet as incredible as it is, what's the payoff? It's not as if Posey stabs Hitler at the end of the movie with a knife. The commando raid turns into a shambles, almost everyone gets killed, but there's no real explanation of what went wrong, or why, or whether the Dirty Dozen actually accomplished anything or not. Maybe that's the point, but I still feel like the ending was a weak payoff for a movie with a spectacular buildup and great character development.

Richie-67-485852 Dirty is implied that the characters do what it takes to get the mission done. Dirty Harry demonstrated that in his movies always prevailing but with a controversy as to how he did it. In this movie, dirty also applies to stained as each man was not only dirty but dirt too. In the end and throughout this movie, that is what it took to get this job done. The same tactics are used today by the CIA and various military as in Navy Seals, Marine Recon, Green Beret and Special Forces. War is about winning not etiquette or necessarily fair play. The Germans believed anything goes as did the Japanese but Americans thought it better for morale if we came up with rules of engagement for POW's better referred to as the Geneva convention. In this movie, it starts with men having nothing to lose and acting foolish and goofy. But stay tuned because when it matters, these boys turn into killers and bet all they have to do it too. Nice movie to eat along with and snack with a tasty drink. Enjoy all these stars in one place delivering their memorable lines. BTW...I always look to see if a movie is a watch again and this one doesn't wear out!

Uriah43 The Dirty Dozen (1967) [8] Lee Marvin stars as "Major Reisman" who has displeased his superiors so much that he is put in charge of a secret mission to parachute behind enemy lines to kill German officers vacationing at a château in France. If that wasn't bad enough, all of his soldiers are hardened criminals of the worst sort who are coerced by the chance that they may be given a parole. Now as implausible as this movie really is I must admit that it offers plenty of entertainment value due in large part to an all-star cast which includes Charles Bronson (as "Joseph Wladislaw"), Clint Walker ("Samson Posey"), Jim Brown ("Robert Jefferson"), Donald Sutherland ("Vernon Pinkley"), Ernest Borgnine ("General Worden"), George Kennedy ("Major Max Armbruster") along with the aforementioned Lee Marvin. Yet with all of these mentioned I thought Telly Savalas deserved special recognition for his performance as the psychotic pervert "Archer Maggott" which really stood out. In any case, this was a big movie back in the 60's and those who might be interested in this type of film should definitely check it out. I rate it as definitely above average.