Lost Command
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Movie Reviews of Lost Command
Movie Review: The Lost 13 Bucks !
Summary: 2 Stars
Unbalanced, a failure, sadly wasted potential, take your pick as all of the aforementioned words aptly describe this movie. I wanted it to be so much better than it turned out to be.
Certainly the cast is talented enough and the core elements of the story dramatic enough but this uneven film suffers from several fatal flaws among them are bad direction, poor editing and a script that needed one or more re-writes prior to filming.
Don't waste your money on this DVD, buy "The Wild Geese" instead if you want a more coherent and exciting film, one with better character development that effectively details the brutality, disillusionment, and futility associated with warfare (along with the action we all crave) .
That is unless you consider the sight of Claudia Cardinale in a tight dress worth the $$!(my favorite part of the movie actually and the only reason I give it 2 stars!)
Movie Review: Atrociously bad, Larteguy should have sued.
Summary: 1 Stars
The Centurions is one of the premiere war novels of all time, and aptly catches the nuances and flavors, both sweet and bitter, of the period. It was an instant classic, and Larteguy's dictum on two armies, mouthed through the fictional Cnel. Raspeguy to his mentor, was a standard office fixture of many a paratroop and special forces commander in the 1960s and 70s. In 1966, "Lost Command" was not so bad because the great majority of war movies were then B films with actors the likes of John Wayne essentially playing themselves. In the wake of "Saving Private Ryan" and "Blackhawk Down", "Lost Command" barely merits a B rating. And in the league of "Bridge on the River Kwai" or "Lawrence of Arabia", it is a cartoon. This is a crime. Larteguy's characters are all composites of real Indochina and Algerian war soldiers and commanders from both sides, and his ability to capture that so well in prose deserved a far better movie. Simply put, the screenplay writens and the director should have been taken out and shot for crimes against literature.Movie Review: CRAP!
Summary: 1 Stars
Lost Command is supposed to be about the French Foreign Legion fighting in Algiers. Though well-intentioned, the horrific acting by Anthony Quinn in the lead role overshadows the one-dimensional, wooden, and shallow characters around him, killing any hope that what could be a good story will come to life on the silver screen. What's left is just awful. By the end of the movie I wanted to shoot Anthony Quinn myself. Tedious and much too predictable. Stay away from it.