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SnoopyStyle It's 1943. After the successful raid in 'The Guns of Navarone', Major Keith Mallory (Robert Shaw) and Sergeant Miller (Edward Fox) are back in England given a mission to kill Nicolai in Yugoslavia. They thought he was executed during Navarone but was actually a German spy. They are the only ones who can identify the spy who is suspected of infiltrating the partisans. They are joined by American unit Force 10 led by Colonel Barnsby (Harrison Ford). American MP Weaver (Carl Weathers) is swept up in the operation. After getting shot down, they encounter local fighters led by Maritza (Barbara Bach) and Drazak (Richard Kiel).There are a few too many unnecessary twists and turns. It would be more compelling to concentrate on Nicolai and the eventual mission. Weaver could have been in Force 10 instead of the complicated way that he gets roped in. Also being captured early on creates two problems. It splits the group in two and it requires convoluted escapes. At its core, there is an interesting war thriller. I just think the group needs to stay together.

screenman '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.

savovidovic Well, the movie is a flick. Just average, at most, in every aspect, even considering the time of production. It has some nice action scenes, but it's nothing like "A Bridge Too Far". It has some funny moments but it's nothing like the "Kelly's Heroes". It tries to develop as a drama but it's nothing like "The Guns of Navarone". Should I continue? :) Still, if you are fun of the WWII movies, or Harrison's fun, or just happen to have a chance to see the movie and have nothing smarter to spend two hours on, go see it! There is one more fact that needs to be pointed out. The biggest objection I have on the story is one that probably doesn't mean much to all of you who live outside the former Yugoslavia, the historic inaccuracy! And I don't mean the event itself but the characters and the organization of local resistance movements and the collaborators. I will not go into details on that here since it would take me, and you, a lot writing/reading time so just take my word for it, that part of the story is laughable bad. But again, it's an objection that can matters only to us living in former Yugoslavia, and for the rest of you I just have an advice: Don't try to learn the Balkan's WWII history from this!

skullislandsurferdotcom Seems like an action/adventure but ends up espionage and is overall a World War II film, and not a real sequel as two characters from THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, played by different actors, Robert Shaw and Edward Fox, join a group of Americans, led by Harrison Ford (basking from the prior year's STAR WARS fame), all sent from England into Yugoslavia: Ford's mission to blow up a bridge, Shaw's to kill a German agent.One must suspend disbelief to truly enjoy the plodding yet lightly involving odyssey as both missions intertwine, and you never really know which peripheral character's on the right side, adding intrigue and a fair amount of suspense.While it's much too easy for our heroes to traipse around Nazi-ridden Yugo without being killed, there's enough snags (like being captured twice by easily-tricked Germans) that you'll either forget or embrace that, for better or worse, this is complete fantasy.