Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

shakercoola A 'Stalag 17' style P.O.W. action adventure feeble on jokes and suspense but it is packaged with pleasing elements. A joke cameo appearance from William Holden early on prepares us that it's going to be a good, old fashioned war romp. It's beautifully shot (blu-ray version is sumptuous) with a stellar cast and there is a fabulous motorcycle chase through the narrow streets of Rhodes. One of the main criticisms is that with no obvious lead role it has a disjointed feel. It's good Sunday afternoon fun after the roast beef and pudding.

Jackson Booth-Millard I am always keen to try war films with a good amount of actors in the cast, and even though this had a low rating, I was still willing to try it, from George P. Cosmatos (Rambo: First Blood Part II, Tombstone). Basically it is World War II, and the Germans have managed to sweep through Greece where camp Stalag VII-Z is located where various civilian prisoners have been thrown. The camp is under control of unpleasant brutality enjoying SS Major Volkmann (Anthony Valentine), and the more charming and former dodgy Viennese art merchant Major Otto Hecht (Sir Roger Moore). Amongst the prisoners who have been spared their lives are archaeology Professor Blake (David Niven), American show performer and presenter Charlie Del Mar (Elliott Gould) and his wife Dottie (Stefanie Powers), black POW Nat Judson (Richard Roundtree), and Italian cook Bruno Rotelli (Sonny Bono). Local Greek resistance leader Zeno (Telly Savalas) and these prisoners have plans not to escape the camp, but to take it over to avoid more villagers being executed. However, they all have the same goal when they hear of priceless treasures on the nearby Mount Athena inside the monastery, and Hecht is persuaded to help with a cut. Of course with an invasion on the way Zeno and the gang have to hurry before the secret German rocket installation beneath the monastery mountain can be activated. Also starring Claudia Cardinale as Eleana and William Holden as Prisoner smoking a cigar in prison camp. Moore might be a good charming lead, but his German accent is terrible, and co-stars Niven, Savalas, Gould and Roundtree all get their moments too. The war element is possibly the least focused part of the story which I found really boring in parts, so much so I even dozed off, not even the explosions and action could do much to grab my attention, so a disappointing war adventure. Adequate!

bkoganbing Roger Moore is the Austrian commandant of a German POW camp located in the Grecian Isles in Escape to Athena. He's got a couple of favorites among the prisoners, an Italian cook in Sonny Bono, an archaeologist in David Niven and a black GI magician in Richard Roundtree. In addition USO entertainers Elliott Gould and Stefanie Powers are shot down in their transport plane and become Moore's prisoners.Moore really hasn't got his heart in the commandant business. He's an antique dealer in civilian life and he relishes the assignment only because of the location where he's also involved in Adolph Hitler's looting of Greek antiquities of which there are many in that area. Niven and company aid him because if they didn't they'd be in the hands of the SS. STill they want there freedom.Which they get when they join with resistance leader Telly Savalas and his mistress, bordello madam Claudia Cardinale. It's rumored there's a lot of hidden loot in a monastery on a nearby hill, whatever Moore hasn't taken for his own private stock for after the war. But Savalas is interested in some prototype V2 rockets located there.Escape to Athena mixes the plot elements of The Guns of Navarone and Topkapi, but they're not stirred too well. The scenery is quite nice and I'm sure the prospect of some paid time in the Aegean Sea might have been a big inducement for all these people signing on for the movie.As he was involved with Stefanie Powers at the time, William Holden gets a small unbilled cameo in a brief scene with Elliott Gould. As it turns out Moore's Prison Camp is also Stalag XVII. That might have been part of the package for Stefanie to go to Greece.It was also plain dumb to make Richard Roundtree a black GI. Americans were not involved in that theater, let alone black soldiers. Now if they had made his character be part of the African colonial troops of the British Empire, it would have made more sense. Then again we couldn't have heard Roundtree call a German soldier a 'cool cat'.The action sequences are done well enough, but the cast here just collected their paychecks and walked through the parts.

jasraluke I watched the movie a few years after it was released. Then I watched it on TV a few times and I enjoyed it every time. It is true that for a war film it looks sometimes unrealistic (as someone has already said) like "a holiday brochure" (really nice pictures). It is however an adventure film, with elements of comedy, so it is NOT meant to be realistic. The only realistic scenes are the ones from the town. I liked the actors - especially Roger Moore and Telly Savalas. They are very contrasting characters. I hope it will not be a spoiler to say that Roger plays a nice man that happens to be on the wrong side and Telly plays a cynical, ruthless (at least looking like that) man being on the right side. I liked some dialogues as well.