Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

bkoganbing The original The Dirty Dozen had Lee Marvin and his jail house crew on a mission that took place inside occupied France days before the D-Day invasion at Normandy. The mission this second trained dozen performs is a few months later.A few months in World War II time, but unfortunately 18 years for the returning cast members from the original cast, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel. They've all aged considerably and sad to say it shows. Especially on Marvin. Due to health problems, Lee Marvin's cinema appearances were cut down considerably during the Eighties. Still Marvin's the same maverick Major Reisman as before. Not too much time is devoted to the training as in the original because that's where we got to know some of the dozen as individuals.The new group is a rather faceless and personalityless lot. None of them stand out in the way that John Cassavetes, Clint Walker, Donald Sutherland, or Telly Savalas did. Of course they were all killed so we couldn't bring them back. Just as well for the producers because those salaries in 1985 would have busted the budget.Still this talented group of players put over an extremely preposterous story back in 1967. This story is more preposterous and it doesn't have the talent to back it up and put it over.Would you believe that the army wants to assassinate S.S. General Sepp Dietrich because they think he might be looking to assassinate Hitler? I didn't think anyone would, I sure didn't. I'd really stick with the original here.

jamesraeburn2003 1944: Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) is in trouble again. Whilst out on a mission, he ordered his men to hijack a truck full of steaks and scotch that was on its way to a banquet for top Nazi officers. Facing years of hard labour in a military prison and dismissal from service, Reisman is reprieved by General Worden (Ernest Borgnine) to form another Dirty Dozen (made up of military prisoners on death row or facing long term imprisonment) to undertake another suicide mission. This time they must sneak into occupied France and hijack a train in order to assassinate a Nazi general because he is planning to kill Hitler.Nearly twenty years after the release of Robert Aldrich's classic war movie, THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967), came this preposterous made for TV sequel in which the plot bares no credibility what so ever. There's a ridiculous climatic sequence where Reisman and his men come within yards of Hitler himself and the Major has to persuade his man to shoot the general and not Hitler as he's tempted to do just that. In reality of course, they wouldn't have got within fifty yards of him and there is no suspense to be had here as we know that they wouldn't have shot Hitler anyway as this would have made the tale even more absurd than it already is. On the positive side, Lee Marvin is still fun to watch as the tough Major Reisman and he is reunited with Richard Jaeckal as Sgt Bowren and Ernest Borgnine as General Wordon who still offer good performances and there's some slick action sequences to enjoy before the absurd climatic showdown.Nevertheless, it was still unwise to have made this film but two sequels followed. They were: THE DIRTY DOZEN: THE DEADLY MISSION (1987) and THE DIRTY DOZEN: THE FATAL MISSION (1988), which brought back Telly Savalas whose character was killed off in the original, but this time he was back as the man training the men as one Major Wright.

yenlo Nearly twenty years after the original, Major Reisman again played by Lee Marvin gets assigned a new gang of G.I. convicts for another mission. If this had to be made why did it have to be done with the Reisman character. Lee Marvins age clearly showed which hurt the picture. Then to make matters even worse Ernest Borgnine and Richard Jaeckel reprise their roles from the 1967 film. Unlike the original the convicts are colorless, the mission pointless and the end cartoonish. Watch the original and consider the story ended when Charles Bronsons Joseph Wladislaw says at the conclusion `Killing Generals could get to be a habit with me.'

VENEZIADOGE This movie had all the warning signs of a horribly cheesy comical re-make. Based upon "The Dirty Dozen," this almost unbearable 90 minutes of film made me almost rethink such masterpieces as Conspiracy Theory, The Blair Witch Project, and Batman and Robin. The movie itself was a mix between the worst Naked Gun humor, and a mildly serious Police Academy 7. Since it was also a "made-for-TV" movie, and since it was also a "made-for-TV" movie comedy, it is among the very cheesiest of the cheesy. So be warned, and watch out for Sonny Landham who played Billy in Predator.Particular attention should be payed to the German scene, which was one of the cheesy-funny scenes in the movie. But as a rule, avoid most movies with "The Next Mission" in the title, or comedies made for TV.Hopefully this was the Dirty Dozen's last mission, or rather the "Baker's Dozen's" last mission!