Five for Hell (1969) User Reviews

Fighting Nazis with trampolines

[Leofwine_draca · 5/10 · 26 April 2016]

A cheap and fitfully amusing WW2 film from our Italian cousins. This one riffs on THE DIRTY DOZEN quite extensively in the predictable story of a behind-enemy-lines mission, in which a group of goofs and oddballs are sent to retrieve some vital documents from the Nazis. Will they succeed? Nobody seems to care really, but when the emphasis is on goofy action throughout then you won't either.

The film stars spaghetti western regular Gianni Garko as the protagonist; he plays your usual English dubbed hero, happily mowing down squads of Nazis and performing various feats of derring-do. His adversary is none other than Klaus Kinski, who must have worn more Nazi uniforms throughout his career than even Curt Jurgens and Anton Diffring; what a sigh of relief he must have breathed when he hung his up for the last time.

In a slightly bizarre spin on the usual formulaic action, a lot of comedic scenes involving trampoline action have been inserted into the mix. I'm familiar with this trampoline stuff from THE THREE FANTASTIC SUPERMEN film and all the similar ones that followed; unsurprisingly, director Gianfranco Parolini worked on both productions. However, it doesn't really fit into a WW2 movie as well as it did in a superhero film; the result is an odd concoction to say the least...

Italian War about a reckless commando assigned a dangerous mission behind enemy lines

[ma-cortes · 5/10 · 22 July 2011]

Spaghetti/War film about a misfit team led by Gianni Garco who carry out a suicide mission behind enemy lines . A group of two-fisted soldiers formed by five experts are drafted to go on a near-suicide mission and attempt to take plans from a Nazi staff . ¨ Five for the Hell¨ is an entertaining film with Gianni Garco as tough officer along with the ordinary team of renegade soldiers of World War II whose mission is to steal the Nazi's secret attack plans -the Plan K on the Gustav Line- from a villa . Garco training a group of rebel and eclectic soldiers for a dangerous assault on a palace-château. In the hands of hardboiled director Gianfranco Parolini , alias Frank Kramer and a tough-as-leather cast , that's all the plot that's needed to make one rip-roaring wartime flick. Garco's mission is two-fold and in violent and cynical style : first turn his G.I.s into a valiant fighting unit and then turn them loose on a German villa located in Italia where they run into a brutal Nazi commander (Klaus Kinski) and being helped by a double agent (Margaret Lee). The diverse characters include a fun-loving Nick Jordan as acrobat , Sanson Burke as hunk man , Salvatore Borghese as safe-cracker , and Luciano Rossi as a lame-brained soldier specialist in explosives . The first half of the film allows the colorful cast of character actors to have their fun as they get their tails whipped into shape and develop shaky relationship with their leader . The final part is all action, as the brave commando wreak havoc and then run for their lives. Despite the fact that few of the "heroes" survive the bloodbath, the message here isn't that war is hell. Rather, it seems to be: war can be a hell of a good time... if you've got nothing to lose . The relentless assignment is set against strong training, risked adventures and hazardous feats . The dangerous mission includes a selected group formed by a motley and varied squadron played by usual of Italian B-series .This is a rugged WWII actioner concerning about an experienced officer , he's assigned by Military staff to train a dropout group of valiant G.I.s who get a chance to redeem themselves . They are a squadron of dispensable characters with no past and no future . Garco reprieves a bunch of soldiers , forges them into a two-fisted fighting unit and leads them on a deadly assignment into Nazi territory . The Privates are oddballs , rag-tag and undisciplined gang , under command a stiff Lieutenant and the team is hardly trained . In this film Garco and his motley band , are suppose to steal a plans located in a fortress where resides various Nazi officers . At the end they must participate in the suicidal mission behind the enemy lines , to wipe the German group by means of a violent assault over a strongly protected position .

Gianni Garco as Lt. Hoffman assumes the character of commando leader in this ordinary wartime movie regularly directed by Gianfranco Parolini. This moving film packs frantic thrills, perilous adventures , comedy , relentless feats , and buck-loads of explosive action and violence. The noisy action is uniformly well-made, especially deserving of mention the rip-roaring final scenes on the fortress , including some spectacular shootouts and bombing . Apart from the values of team spirit , cudgeled by Garco into his rebel group , the film is full of feats , suspense , and thrills . Rough Gianni Garco or Gary Hudson is good as leader of the motley pack together thwart the Nazi schemes, as well as the largely secondary cast with special mention to Salvatore Borghese , a habitual comic secondary in multiple Italian films . Atmospheric and functional musical score by Mancuso and mediocre cinematography in Eastmancolor filmed by Sandro Mancori . This is a wartime typical vehicle and into the ¨warlike commando genre¨ , in USA style which also belong the American classics as : ¨Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich) ¨ Where eagles dare(Brian G. Hutton) and Kelly's heroes(Hutton ), Tobruk (Arthur Hiller), Devil's Brigade (Andrew V McLagen) and many others .

The film is middling directed by Gianfranco Parolini or Frank Kramer. He began directing muscle-men epics as ¨Rocha¨, ¨The Macabeos¨ with Brad Harris and ¨The ten gladiators¨ with Dan Davis and Gianni Rizzo , Parolini's usual actor. After that he continued with ¨commissioner X¨ series with Tony Kendall , fantastic with ¨three supermen¨ and warlike movie as ¨5 per l'Inferno¨ with Gianni Garco (Sartana) and Nick Jordan. His first Western was ¨Johnny West¨ and later on , he directed the ¨Sabata trilogy¨ . It's followed by ¨ Return of Sabata¨ with similar artistic as Lee Van Cleff and Nick Jordan and customary technician team and finally ¨Indio Black ¨ with Yul Brynner . Rating : Average but amusing .

Germany's secret plan foiled by a trampoline!!!

[leagueofstruggle · 4/10 · 5 February 2004]

While Germany worked furiously on secret weapons like the V-2 rocket and jet engines, America matched them with the invention of a portable trampoline and lead filled baseball. See machine gun nests knocked out by a gymnast that flies higher than the Luftwaffe! Exclaim as a GI takes out Nazis with sniper-like precision with a baseball! Gasp as Klaus Kinski acts like he always does in most any film... sleazy! This Italian made Dirty Dozen clone has its up and downs. For the most part it flows through as any low budget Italian WWII film. Expect inadvertent humor at times that are supposed to be serious and many flubs. Note that the movie is based around a collapsible trampoline and weighted baseball and the commandos that use them. Dancing commandos at that! Watch for the Fred Astaire like moves of the trampoline wielding commando that dances to the movies theme on the radio. Note that few woman can escape the fate that awaits theme in a scene with Klaus Kinski in any film. Almost as an apology to the general awfulness of this film the climax is actually well filmed and runs well as good WWII actions scenes. One of the more amusing Italian b-grade war films.

I've seen worse

[grahamsj3 · 5/10 · 19 October 2003]

But I've also certainly seen better. This film has good points and bad ones. The worst aspect of the film is the musical score. First, it sounds like it belongs to a Saturday morning kiddie show, not a war film. The score also suffers from very poor sound editing, although the rest of the audio is OK. There are two scenes in the film where the music begins to build, then is abruptly cut off in mid note. The story is OK and, from most of the cast, the acting is at least somewhat decent, though certainly nothing to write home about. I've watched a lot of war films and this one rates about a 5 out of ten, which is what I voted for it in this venue. It has a sort of well-written screenplay and the action sequences are fairly good, which is why I rated it that high.

Passably entertaining Italian Dirty Dozen clone

[Red-Barracuda · 5/10 · 5 October 2016]

This Italian action/adventure set during the Second World War is essentially a riff on the then recent American smash hit The Dirty Dozen (1967). Its story is broadly similar where we have a specially selected group of five American soldiers being chosen to go behind enemy lines to steal some heavily guarded battle plans from a well-protected German stronghold. But the question you need to ask yourself is could that earlier Hollywood blockbuster have been improved with the inclusion of scenes involving its crack commandos jumping off mini trampolines, using baseballs as weaponry and indulging in extended tap dancing routines? Well, this is the film that essentially answers that particular question. I'm not going to give you the answer though as I think it's best a person decides for themselves on such matters.

This one features the go-to bad guy actor of the day, Klaus Kinski, in a role of a ruthless Nazi and the delectable Margaret Lee as a German double-agent. The five-man army, on the other hand, were decidedly less distinctive than this pair. The film itself is reasonably entertaining in a lots-of shooting kind of way but it is also very by-the-numbers too. The final assault on the German base drags somewhat until it becomes a machine gun fest. So I reckon it could have been a bit more interesting really but in fairness, like its title characters, it still gets the job done.

If you love Margaret Lee and Klaus Kinski

[RodrigAndrisan · 5/10 · 9 June 2016]

This is another favorite of my childhood, I've seen it so many times that I know it by heart. I know even why, now, at 57(my age), is especially for the eroticism of Margaret Lee. With each viewing, I was hoping that maybe, just maybe, this time they will not shoot her and I will be able to take her home with me at the end of the film...To show her my collection of stamps, what did you thought? I can't say that I love the film now. I can not say that is the worst movie in the world neither. I've seen others even worse. Plus, we have Klaus Kinski, an extraordinary actor, a genius in playing insane characters(it seems that he was also a little bit crazy in real life). John Garko is OK and the music is not bad either.

Relax and don't take it so seriously

[bensonmum2 · 7/10 · 6 September 2009]

The plot of Five for Hell isn't anything overly original. Those who have seen The Dirty Dozen or The Inglorious Bastards (the best of these over-the-top Italian war movies) will find things very familiar. A group of five American GIs are sent behind enemy lines to obtain a copy of Nazi battle plans stored in the safe of a heavily guarded villa. The GIs have help on the inside in the form of a double-agent named Helga (played by the ludicrously gorgeous Margaret Lee). Her main objective is to keep SS Col. Hans Mueller (the great Klaus Kinski) otherwise occupied. Meanwhile, Lt. Hoffman (Sartana himself - Gianni Garko) and his men make their way to the villa, open the safe, and battle their way back to safety. It's very simple, but nicely put together.

After reading reviews for Five for Hell on IMDb and around the internet, I think there are a bunch of people who have forgotten how to have fun watching a movie. That's what I did with Five for Hell - I had fun. Forget realism, forget history, forget the normal conventions of a good movie - this is classic Italian genre cinema. Just relax, don't take things too seriously, and go with it. A few familiar actors (Lee, Kinski, Garko, Sal Borgese, Luciano Rossi), a catchy soundtrack (I dare you to get that main theme out of your head), bad dubbing (I've gotten so used to this by now, it doesn't phase me), a gimmick or two for interest (exploding baseballs and a crazy trampoline), over-the-top action (the final 15 minutes are just one big machine gun fight), a really rotten bad guy to root against (Kinski at his evil best), and a beautiful woman (I think I've already expressed my feelings about Margaret Lee). Yep - Five for Hell's got it all.

It makes you wish Germany had won...

[mr2sheds · 5 September 2004]

To watch this film is to follow five misfit American soldiers directly into hell, where they beat you up, take your wallet and abandon you.

In my WWII film and literature class, I show Five for Hell's opening credit sequence, which lasts about 15 minutes (pacing, people, pacing), as an example of war movie making at its worst. While the film is about a commando raid, the soundtrack is about a young woman who goes to Los Angeles to become a go-go dancer. Commander Baseball has clearly never thrown a ball in his life, but I guess that doesn't matter when you are going into combat against an army of Bond movie henchmen. Quite possibly a war crime, Five for Hell is a visual root canal.

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[drystyx · 2/10 · 13 February 2010]

This is an action war film. That means it should be exciting.

WRONG! The director makes a fatal flaw in showing limitless action scenes with no direction, no character, no logic, nothing. This looks more like an arcade game that people pass up, because no one cares. There are constant fighting sounds and warfare, and the dialog is beyond corny. It is cliché after cliché.

To be honest, it is totally boring. How hilarious that all this action is put together for nothing. It is very hard to stay awake while watching this, so I give it a 2 instead of a 1 because it might cure your Insomnia.

Great WWII Italian Action picture

[sethwallace326 · 7/10 · 12 March 2006]

I found 'Five For Hell' immensely enjoyable. I purchased it for .79 cents on amazon marketplace and anxiously awaited it's arrival. When I saw this film I was consuming large amounts of bourbon and I must say, this greatly increased the enjoyment of what is unfairly called 'The Worst film ever made" by the previous reviewer. If you are a fan of fun, guys on a mission type War films, which avoid dramatic elements, and are loaded with excellent action sequences; then 'Five For Hell' is just the ticket. This film is not high art by any means. And for the record it is done in the vein of most Italian Exploitation/Action/War flicks. Pick this baby up and stop off at your local liquor, gun store. I suggest bourbon and shotgun and at least 3,000 rounds of ammunition. I would also suggest Castellari's 'Ingolorious Bastards' if you find this film appealing.

HG

This is so bad it should be on MST3K...

[pastyboyz · 1/10 · 16 July 2006]

I have watched a lot of war movies in my time, so I feel that I can comment on any war film with authority. But, this film is so bad a chimp could easily see this movie is so terrible it is funny. The music at times appears to be happy-campy stuff from the 70's or from a bad porn movie. At times the music does not fit. The premise of the movie is OK, yet it is unbelievable that these Italians are American GIs. Lets see the Tap dancing soldier that uses a trampoline to get over a fence, oh boy would Joel, and Crow have fun with that one. There is a dark haired Italian beauty that is supposed to be an German secretary that works for the underground. I am surprised they did not include a Hogan's Hero's character for good measure. There is the usual good German general and the bad SS guy that disagree on how to treat underground prisoners. The movie was on one of those 16 movies for 10 bucks DVD in a bin at the drug store. The video quality looked like a bad VCR dub.

You Ninnys Are Criticizing A Cartoon!!

[Steve_Nyland · 9/10 · 17 February 2006]

OK, enough is enough. Stop talking trash about this movie, obsessing over equipment or uniforms, put down your history of World War 2 facts checklist and PAY ATTENTION:

Simply put, FIVE FOR HELL is a violent, cartoonish Spaghetti Western masquerading as a war film. I once encountered a very heated discussion about FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE where contributors were trying to argue who was probably a better shot in real life, Clint Eastwood or Lee Van Cleef. (Answer: they are both ACTORS, and it's only a movie.) I sense the same kind of desperation in the bulk of the comments made here about this wonderful, stupid, energetic little movie, which has as much in common with reality as a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Italian cult genre cinema is about exaggerations. The events depicted in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE were no more rooted in history than FIVE FOR HELL. In the same way that DOLLARS just happens to involve cowboys shooting each other's hats, FIVE FOR HELL just happens to be about Americans and Germans shooting each other's helmets. And in the same way that DOLLARS is set in the old west, FIVE FOR HELL is set during the Second World War. Instead of being about two gunfighters who infiltrate a gang of evil Pistoleros to exact revenge & make off with their loot, FIVE FOR HELL is about a squad of commandos who infiltrate a Nazi stronghold to make off with some battle plans, or whatever it is that they are after.

See, it doesn't matter what they are after, because the point of the movie is not to educate viewers about real events that their textbooks didn't cover, but to entertain people with an outrageous story, kinetic stunts, choreographed shootouts, sneering evil Nazi Waffentroops, explosions, goofy physical comedy, and a dash of risqué material involving megababe Margeret Lee. You aren't supposed to be watching it with your textbooks open but with your brains switched off. THE MOVIE IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN, NOT REAL. So all these concerns about equipment, uniform type or whether the Nazis hung the toilet paper on the left or right side of the loo is irrelevant and distracting. With that said, I can understand why a lot of detractors may have a problem with this movie, which is that it dares to have fun with World War 2. You could say the same thing about Italian mob movies getting a thrill out of organized crime or spy thrillers exploiting the cold war for giggles or even Spaghetti Westerns making light of the cowboy experience. I wouldn't advise one doing so, but you could ...

So here is a Spaghetti Western -- with all of the good, bad, and ugly that term inspires -- that just happens to have machine guns, tanks and Klaus Kinski as a Nazi, instead of having six shooters, horses and Klaus Kinski as a ruthless hired killer. His "Sartana" co-star Gianni Garko plays the tough American Lt. who leads the rabble of misfits on their hopeless mission behind enemy lines: Instead of worrying about the make of the machine guns, worry about whether they will make it back alive. Especially Sal Borgese's "Syracuse", because he's so much fun to watch. And worry about Margeret Lee: do you think that rotten Klaus is going to have his way with her? Hell, I would!!

The bottom line is that this is a fantasy, a cartoon, a big colorful ripoff of THE DIRTY DOZEN that for my money is twice as entertaining, funny, and inappropriate as that movie, and about half as long. FIVE FOR HELL is a win-win situation for viewers: you are only diminished by missing it. But for Christ sake it's NOT the History Channel, it was only meant to be entertaining, and the movie is eager to please. Perhaps a bit over-eager, which would be my only complaint, and about as close as you can come to a party movie about war. If that is a bad thing my apologies, but sometimes movies are made to just be watched, enjoyed, forgotten and still leave enough room for another one just like it on a double bill. On that consideration it's a brilliant success, and a great introduction point to the genre for viewers just starting out. You can find it on DVD for a dollar, go enjoy.

9/10

Pretty raw--but pretty good...

[jfritzyb · 6/10 · 28 January 2006]

The graphics (lol) are pretty offish for its time--but you know, for some reason, they seem to improve over time. (For instance, if the camera is shooting from a distance, the guys look really tall and skinny. Up close, it looks more realistic.)

Any points of interest? Well, a couple of softballs are used in this movie--not to mention a pretty nifty knife-throwing technique near the end of the movie. (And loads of action sporadically located throughout the movie)!

But that's all I can tell you for now...

Plot: A GI leader picks four or five men to go on a mission to Germany in order to obtain "Plan K" and refute a plan from the German army to crush US forces.

No, seriously: this isn't the real movie, is it?

[xiangdo · 1/10 · 31 January 2006]

Let's see: tap dancing, gymnastics, lousy music, a painful dubbed soundtrack, stilted dialog, ridiculous situations. I'm sorry, I'll have to take the previous reviewer's word for quality action scenes at the end. I stopped watching it at the point I was starting to wish someone would hurl a lead-weighted baseball at my head.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind films with a comedic take on war, nor do I have an objection to fictional story lines based on real wars; many films fit either or both of those criteria and are fine fare.

Neither do I require that a war film be an epic like "Lawrence of Arabia" or have the historic scope (not to mention stellar cast of "The Longest Day", "A Bridge Too Far" or "Midway". Lots of films that fall short of those works are perfectly fine viewing.

"Five for Hell" was just too much for me - or, to be accurate, too little. There's a world of difference between "comedic" and "so awful it ridicules itself", and this one does. I can see little that would make this film worse; only, perhaps, had it been an Ed Woods production, or included gratuitous (and ridiculously anachronistic) scenes with bikini-clad girls it could be so.

If a war-movie equivalent to "Mystery Science Theater 3000" existed, "Five for Hell" would be a prime candidate for inclusion therein. It's not a case of "so bad it's good", it's so bad, it's awful. I can't accept it as a comedy. A bad attempt at comedy is many things, but it isn't funny - and if it ain't funny, it ain't comedy.

Bad, but funny

[ajdelong · 7 July 2004]

This movie is a horrendous waste of talent. They are so proud to have gotten Klaus Kinski to act (well, if you can call Klaus doing that sexy sadist thing he does so well 'acting') in it, they have his name in a box in the opening credits. They even name the mysterious Nazi plan Plan K! If the movie was supposed to be funny, it failed. If it was supposed to be serious, it failed. For such a short film, it shouldn't seem to drag in points like it does. The soundtrack will leave you in fetal position. However, I have to admit that there's a soft spot in my heart (and head, probably) for this movie. I think it's seriously overlooked Cult Film material. When it's watched around my house, it's with the fervor of Rocky Horror. Give it a chance, if you get a cheapo rental....

2 stars for Kinski

[QueenoftheGoons · 2/10 · 15 June 2021]

I got this for Kinski, and i will admit i did not want to believe of his nymphomaniac nature, but this ruffled my jealous fur. Margaret Lee and he were too close. They starred together too many times and she was of course in his autobiography. The electric fence at the end is a new one.

Spaghetti War Film

[davidry-83687 · 5/10 · 16 March 2016]

1969 music. Gymnastics. Softball (as a weapon.) Tap dancing. Very much like a spaghetti western except it's a WWII flick. Giving it a 5 because it's hardly a classic but I've seen worse. They actually did a good job with the weapons, uniforms, and vehicles. Sure, there are some nits to pick, but I give these guys credit for at least trying. The plot details were a bit fuzzy but the film gives you all the basics you'd expect for a raid. The dubious goal almost gave it a sci-fi feel at points. Kudos too in that the Germans actually spoke German, although the number of Germans with Hitler mustaches exceeded the allowed quota in the realm of believable cinema.

I've seen better

[jordondave-28085 · 3/10 · 15 May 2023]

(1968) Five For Hell/ 5 per l'inferno DUBBED SPAGHETTI WAR

Five best soldiers are selected to go to Germany to steal Nazi plans about how they're going to invade blah, blah, blah... with Klaus Kinski as the suspicious general. I've just realize that often these Spaghetti Italian/ European war movies have such awesome looking posters but whenever it comes to watching the movies they're often as mediocre as they come. Some of the existing problems are the music score which sounds like an instrumental pop- so carefree. And because it's an European production Italians are not just playing as Italian soldiers but as many roles both as Germans and Americans. They used some actual war footages toward the end to create much of the impact since the budget was obviously compromised. And because the version I had saw is modified, most of the time I can't seem t make out what was happening.

Cool Macaroni War Flick

[verbusen · 6/10 · 17 April 2015]

OK, lets get this matter straight, this is a comic book war film. The Dirty Dozen, Kelley's Hero's, Inglorious Bastards, and the Tarantino reboot, and about 150+ Italian and American and probably other country's (Philippine and whatever). So do I give it an 10 for a straight film? No I give it a 6 for a straight film, it's worth it. I was thinking it would suck but we have all seen films like this that suck a lot more, just get past the boot camp stuff and try to find a decent version online (letterbox) and you will enjoy it straight to the end. Can I say Kinski is the major draw here? Not really, it's the hot women and the 5 guys from hell, and a really good kill them all finish, you wont be disappointed for staying around, it's funny intense action war comic book stuff. Don't be too critical that everyone has a sub machine gun until the end, it's all good and the Nazi's lose and we get to feel sad as well for our fallen comrades, good flick.

Italian War Movie with Klaus KINSKI

[ZeddaZogenau · 5/10 · 13 January 2024]

Gianfranco Parolini, Brad "Action" Harris' house director, was no stranger to anything. He also tried his hand at Macaroni Kombat films with his idiosyncratic mix of action and comedy, albeit without Harris as in this case.

Five US soldiers (Gianni Garko / Aldo Canti / Sal Borgese / Luciano Rossi / Samson Burke) are selected for a special team that is supposed to steal very secret documents from a Nazi villa. A German double agent (Margaret Lee) is supposed to help them there, but she is only able to maintain her cover with difficulty by doing love services for a nasty SS man (of course: Klaus Kinski). The original title of the film is: Five for Hell! And it also breaks out when the five warhorses haunt the villa in the tradition of the "dirty dozen"...

Well, it's not for nothing that MacaroniKombat has been less successful than the spaghetti western genre. There are also elements of slapstick that will certainly put some people off. Only for die-hard fans!

My name is Hoffman, pray for your death

[Bezenby · 6/10 · 12 November 2016]

I love Italian film but their sixties war films can be a bit of a slog (compared to the Last Hunter and Strike Commando in the eighties), however, this one has a good bit of style, and a few actors who are always fun to watch.

Also, Klaus Kinski is in this, but he actually has a substantial part! Sit down for this, right, but he's playing a German bad guy who is a bit crazy. Gianni Garko on the other hand is a hard-arse GI out to steal plans from a safe with his team, consisting of Sal Borghese! Giovanni Frezza (I think that's his name), and two other guys, one of which looks like Guillano Gemma, is a acrobat like Guillano Gemma, but is not Guillano Gemma. Strange.

This dirty half a dozen minus one head towards this villa occupied by Kinski, and a double crossing agent called Helga. That's really the plot, to be honest. It's fun though, and has a bit of style as it's made by that guy who made that Sartana film.

I'd also add though however that this IS a sixties Italian war film, and they really kind of follow a formula.

Circus goes to war

[GianfrancoSpada · 5/10 · 19 December 2023]

If there were a subgenre of WWII movies that nonsensically blend pure spaghetti western action with circus athletes enlisted for special missions, this film would undoubtedly be a masterpiece. But alas, I fear such a subgenre doesn't exist, and this isn't just a poorly conceived and executed B-movie. The plot is as thick as two short planks, the dialogues seem written by someone who's never seen a decent movie in his life. Everything is pure caricature, except for the production team who took it very seriously. This isn't to say that good movies can't be made by remixing some of the ingredients used here, but of course, to do so, one must be a good chef, and they do exist...

Not bad, Needs A LOT of work.

[wrosejr108 · 7/10 · 8 May 2009]

Acceptable at best. Not bad for a movie, however the quality in film was incredibly bad, not to mention the actors were a bit static in actions and speech. The Gymnastics were fair to a degree, but when did a lead-weighted baseball become such an effective weapon? The bad part to me was in overall uniforms, particularly the General's. Fist, German generals did not wear shoulder straps in that manner, nor were the many, incorrect ribbon boards produced nor worn by such officers of the German army I would recommend this movie for the "laid-back" movie viewer, and not hardcore war fanatics like myself.Give it a fair seven out of ten.

This is the worst film ever made.

[scooter-31 · 31 October 1998]

This is undoubtedly the worst film ever made! I challenge anyone to watch more than one quarter of this movie without going insane!

English Dubbing.

[WBuS · 26 March 2001]

I would like to thank the previous Contributer regarding the Dubbing of this movie. I always strive to 'get it right', but 'out of place' does seem to be a bit negative. But thank you anyway! Sean Barry-Weske.