Majorthebys Charming and brutal

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

jamesdepp-00669 This movie is definitely not PG. Check the parents guide section: contains nudity & profanity.

gavin6942 During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.An odd occurrence in making the film: cinematographer Christopher Challis recalled that the film was originally considered to be filmed in Pakistan until someone realized that Pakistanis did not resemble Yugoslavians or Germans and the expense to make them appear as such on film would be financially prohibitive. How do you make someone look German? Anyway, this is a good war story. Not a great war story, but a good one. And it really is sold by the strong casting. Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw, obviously, but Carl Weathers is incredible. He may be best known for "Rocky", but he always commands attention when on screen.

blanche-2 Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach, Edward Fox, Franco Nero, and Carl Weathers star in "Force 10 from Navarone" based on a novela by Alistair MacLean and a follow-up to "The Guns of Navarone."Mallory is now played by Shaw instead of Gregory Peck and Miller is now Fox instead of David Niven. It seems there was a traitor with them at Navarone, a man they believe to be dead. But it turns out he escaped. He was a German spy. The Intelligence service thinks he is in Yugoslavian with the Partisans, and Mallory is ordered to find him and kill him. Since only Miller and Mallory know him, they are sent along with a unit, Force 10, run by Colonel Barnsby (Ford) who doesn't want either man as he believes they will slow him down.Force 10's mission is to blow up a bridge. En route their plane is shot and everyone has to bail out. They wind up prisoners of German sympathizers. In order to be released, they tell a lot of lies that the commandant doesn't believe. But unbeknownst to them, they have a friend there.I thought this was pretty good and entertaining and boy, could they blow things up! Lots of special effects and good performances. Amazing seeing how young Harrison Ford was! Recommended. It's not a blockbuster but it is good.

Michael A. Martinez Ho-hum WW2 actioner which certainly benefits from its extensive showcasing of the beautiful Slavic countryside, FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE was obviously a name-only sequel cash-in from the start and utterly doomed in trying to fit in with its tonally divergent predecessor.There really weren't too many WW2 movies from the late 70's... actually only BRIDGE TOO FAR (which also starred Edward Fox in a similarly bombastic role) springs to mind, and so this one is a bit of a curiosity especially in terms of casting. As was par for the course at the time a lot of effort is made to bring in foreign audiences by casting European stars, but Franco Nero is largely wasted in an unfortunately obvious role with only one tense scene of note.It's funny to see James Bond alums Richard Kiel (best known as "Jaws" in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME and MOONRAKER) and Barbara Bach together again as Chetniks vs. Spielberg/Lucas protégés Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw (JAWS - the movie) in what is essentially a glorified B war movie only marginally glossier than what Italy and Yugoslavia were pumping out a decade prior.Unfortunately there's a lot of missed opportunities and bad logic which takes this movie down several notches. The Germans are of course portrayed as utterly stupid and are easily bamboozled so many times that they're rendered utterly nonthreatening by the film's end. Carl Weathers provides probably the most likable and 3-dimensional of all the characters in the film but his presence doesn't really make much sense or add anything aside from some comedic moments with Richard Kiel, who takes an instant dislike to him. Harrison Ford sleepwalks his way through the film and Robert Shaw looks and acts as exhausted as he probably was at this time so near to the end of his life.As par for the course there's plenty of explosions and gun-play but unfortunately quite wasted in a largely daft and sloppily made film.Look fast for Doctor Who actors Michael Sheard (later reunited with Ford as Hitler in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE) and Leslie Schofield (the guy in STAR WARS who tells Peter Cushing that "There is a danger") in bit parts as German soldiers. Also don't blink or you'll miss some nudity courtesy of Ms. Bach only two years prior to her marriage to Ringo Starr. Also strange is how Robert Rietty (who provided Adolfo Celi's dubbed voice in THUNDERBALL and Tetsuro Tamba's in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE) here lends his dubbing over Bond villain Richard Kiel! I suppose that's to be expected when you hire on a director best known for Bond movies.