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| year: 1978 cast: Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Edward Fox, Carl Weathers rating: ***1/2 |
Starts out an action/adventure but ends up espionage, and is overall a good time World War II movie and not a
real sequel to THE GUNS OF NAVARONE as that story's two main characters, played by different actors, Robert Shaw and Edward Fox, join a group of Americans led by Harrison Ford, all sent from England into Yugoslavia: Ford's mission to blow up a bridge, Shaw's to kill a German secret agent (Franco Nero).
The viewer must suspend disbelief to truly enjoy the lightweight yet 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 the fact that, for
better or worse, this is complete fantasy. And that's a good thing when you have gun fights, knife fights, big explosions, and an ensemble dream cast.
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| Carl Weathers, Edward Fox, Harrison Ford |
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