The Bridges at Toko-Ri
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Movie Reviews of The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Movie Review: The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Summary: 3 Stars
I was really excited when I saw this movie on the shelf at the library. It was one of the few Grace Kelly movies I had not seen. I was not prepared for the ending though - It was very disappointing and extremely sad.
William Holden is Henry Brubaker, a naval reserve, sent on an assignment to destroy the bridges of Toko-Ri during the Korean War. Before he goes off on the assignment, he meets his wife, Nancy (Grace Kelly) and his two little girls at Tokyo. Grace Kelly is beautiful as usual, and William Holden is great at his part. Mickey Rooney also stars as Brubaker's friend. This is a good movie except for the ending.
Movie Review: Good Movie, But No Wide screen
Summary: 3 Stars
The Theme here is a Navy Reservist, from WWII, called back into service, and thus putting his civilian career on hold to take part in our little Police action in Korea. Sounds too familiar, and too much like life imitating art, or art imitating...
Any way those fans of movies about aviation will love this movie, and its dipiction of how fast ones life, and perspectives can change, and war is hell and all that.
Good story line and plot, with a bit of mystery, will the mission be a success, or no? Tune in to see.
I have but one complaint, why no widescreen?
Movie Review: The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Summary: 2 Stars
The best part of the movie was that, at the end, all the heroes died.Movie Review: Sorry! Poor Show!
Summary: 1 Stars
Bridges at Toko-Ri is set in Korean peninsula during the Korean War starring Holden as a reserve pilot and his cronies Rooney and some other guy, with Grace Kelly playing the wife. Kelly is wasted or is a waste; she lacks the spontaneity of Hepburn and tries to act the Diva with small beady eyes that rarely open. Why was she called beautiful remains a mystery, obviously if American men wanted to sleep with Nancy Reagan, I reckon Kelly was OK. Considering the fact that had Nancy been released in Salem of 17th Century she would have been an automatic candidate to be burnt on stake. Anyways some aerial shots are worth watching and remain quite unparalleled, but the background music is very poor and, that, is a tragedy, since many a film had little content but scenes were very vastly enhanced due to effective background score. In this film some visual content were superb but the music lets down as it either remains absent or fails to create a menacing atmosphere to jell with Holden's misgiving about the mission. Only the last few minutes are excellent but the rest of the movie looks like a documentary on naval aircrafts with few scenes replete with gross sexism and racism. Rooney is quite good and Holden holds good with a remarkably controlled performance, rest are mediocre and sermonize. Kelly is all about - see my right profile - see 1/10 of my breasts - see my figure and is a big let down.Movie Review: very bad and poor
Summary: 1 Stars
Sorry but i totaly disagree with all these positive reviews.I'm a fan of war classic films but this one is a mess.Nothing is moving,action is zero and filming is poor.
we are very far away from dirty dozen,battle of the bulge,midway,enemy below etc....
a total waste of time and money.