The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

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Movie Review: The best depiction of this films shortcomings. See below:
Summary: 5 Stars

This is probably the worst war film that I have ever seen. In light of the generally poor performance of the Anglo-American troops in WWII, this film which was made in the 50s has a very important role to play as propangada together with films like "The Dirty Dozen I & II", "Kelly's Heroes", "Saving Private Ryan" etc, showing the heroic "superman" fighting abilities of their troops and commandoes against the Nazis bad guys. In Hollywood made war films, they (the Anglo-American soldiers) are always at the right place at the right time. They can always silence a German sentry with a knife stab with ease. All of them are sharpshooters and can always cause maximum casualties of the Germans from a single grenade throw and a burst of submachine gun fire. A handful of them can easily hold up and destroy an entire platoon if not a company of Krauts with tanks. If any one of them does die in a film, he does a heroic death with piles of German corpes around his position. It is commonplace that German soldiers are always shown to be so stupid, clumsy and vulnerable in films produced in Hollywood. They cannot think and react like a soldier. They have no sense of alertness in battle. All or nearly all of them are armed with MP 40 submachine guns (I doubt if there can be such high proportion of MP 40 used by the German troops at front line let alone for those of the garrison units in occupied countries), and all of them can neither shoot their guns and throw the grenades accurately. All of them ride on American made jeeps and tanks. Having seen that film and other similar films, I wonder whether the German soldiers in the story received any basic military training and possessed any military thinking. I think it is probably a good idea for any Hollywood war film producers to read some more about German military history in WWII, and to study the fighting abilities of men like Jochen Peiper, Kurt Meyer, Michael Wittmann, Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz, Vincent Kaiser, Otto Skorzeny to name but a few. This film was entirely based on fiction and not on similar historical event. The story was all the same, i.e., how a handful of Allied soldiers or commandoes was up against the odds facing and beating the Germans. But in truth it was the German solders who were mostly up against the odds facing the Allied soldiers both on the Eastern and Western front in WWII. Please give the German soldiers in WWII a fair account of their performance in battle, their fighting power was no less, if not higher or much higher, than the Anglo-American's. Please stop producing any such stupid so-called war film.

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