GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

evanston_dad Hot damn, what a good movie "The Guns of Navarone" is. What took me so long to watch it?Was anyone else struck by how similar this movie is to the recent "Star Wars" movie "Rogue One?" At times the similarities were so great that I had to believe the creators of "Rogue One" were directly influenced by this film.A classic men-on-a-mission movie, "The Guns of Navarone" is mostly a straight up combat film, but a terrific screenplay by Carl Foreman and equally terrific performances by Gregory Peck and David Niven introduce some intelligent insights into the moral ambiguity of what it means to get the job done when that job is killing other men, the entire business of war. The special effects in "The Guns of Navarone," including a ship wreck and an exploding mountain top, garnered the film an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Dramatic or Comedy Score (a typically magnificent one by Dimitri Tiomkin), and Best Sound.Grade: A

HotToastyRag The beginning of The Guns of Navarone will seem a little complicated, but for your own sake, keep watching. It'll be one of the most riveting war classics you'll ever watch.I'll help you out: In the thick of WWII, the British triy to rescue 2,000 troops on an island, but they're shot to pieces by automatic machine guns on the neighboring island of Navarone. Naturally, their next mission is to sneak onto Navarone and shut off the motion-detecting guns. It sounds a lot more complicated the way the plot is described in the exposition of the movie, but basically that's the gist of it. Six men are given the assignment, and not only is it a virtually impossible mission, but not everyone in the group gets along. Anthony Quayle and David Niven are best buds, but Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn are long-standing enemies who are one argument away from killing each other. Based on Alistair MacLean's bestselling novel, Carl Foreman wrote and directed an intense, suspenseful, and exciting film. As soon as the group is gathered together and start the mission, you're in for a non-stop, edge-of-your-seat, fantastic war thriller. Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn show off their acting chops early on, and I won't blame you if you wonder halfway through the film, "Why is David Niven in this movie?" After all, he has a significantly smaller role than the other leads and isn't given anything to do besides make sarcastic comments. You'll be happy to hear that in the second half of the movie, he's given plenty to do. You'll be hard-pressed to find a bigger Niven fan than I, but even if you're not utterly in love with him, I'm sure you'll agree he gives a fantastic performance alongside Greg, the Anthonys, Gia Scala, Richard Harris, Stanley Baker, James Darren, and Irene Papas. The Guns of Navarone won the 1962 Oscar for Best Special Effects, and was nominated for six additional Oscars: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Sound, Editing, and Music. As you might recall, West Side Story swept the awards that season, but after you watch The Guns of Navarone, you might think the Academy misgave a few awards. I highly recommend you rent it the next time you're in the mood to watch an actually good movie. It'll stand out among so many mediocre ones.

Filipe Neto This film tells how the Allies sought to destroy a pair of German super-guns, placed in a fortress on a major naval strait in Greece. The film emphasizes from the start the damage that cannons do to allied plans and the surplus value that would come if they were destroyed. So, a group of British soldiers, backed by Greek resistance, will try to penetrate the fort undercover to break up with the guns. Okay, I am the most vehement supporter of the quality of this film, but as drama more than as a war movie. In fact, it does not have many action and reveals itself much more stopped, slow and reflective than a war movie usually is. Here we don't see the emotions, adventure or danger that is dormant in "Where Eagles Dare", based on a book of the same author and shot a few years later. On the other hand, the great seriousness and dramatic rapport of the cast led by David Niven, Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn, makes the film much heavier and denser, helping to highlight the dramatic face even more so that the public almost forgets the war. The cast is luxury and they are all up to the challenge. There are no freshmen. All are great actors, with experience and a great talent.

jimbo-53-186511 A British team are tasked with entering occupied Greece and destroying a large gun tower on the island of Navarone. With the gun tower being heavily guarded by the Nazis, the team have to use their ingenuity to outfox the Germans.The Guns Of Navarone is a good story and to be fair it had enough going for it to hold my interest, but unfortunately it's a film that I found to be sporadically thrilling and compelling rather than consistently compelling and thrilling.The first thing has to be addressed is the length of the film and one thing I really don't like is a film that spends an awful long time just setting up the plot - sometimes this can work with complex plots that need to introduce several characters or films that involve interwoven stories, but where the plot is rather linear such as it is in The Guns Of Navarone I would have much preferred it if we'd have got to the crux of the plot much sooner (some of the earlier scenes felt rather redundant and didn't seem to do much to drive the narrative forward). Although the slightly plodding pace is more of a problem in the first half sadly examples of it are dotted throughout the film - director J Lee Thompson seems to use a lot of long takes which admittedly look good, but inevitably just add unnecessary length to the picture.The cast are a key to make this work and although David Niven has top billing (according to IMDb) it is very much Gregory Peck who is the lead actor here and he does a great job giving a rather calm and understated performance as the 'voice of authority'. David Niven is also excellent in what I would class as a 'supporting role' in this film.Still as I've mentioned it has enough about it to make it worth watching - although J Lee Thompson seems to have tried to turn this into some kind of epic he does mostly keep the story on track and it does slowly manifest itself into an intriguing battle of wits. It's certainly worth a look and probably would have been even better if the running time would have been trimmed slightly.