elmusto This movie made Einstein roll in his grave as it explained how its easy to blow a 20m thick dam rather than a 2m thick bridge with steel arches and this is only the most annoying flaw among-st 20 other that i really tried to disregard since it was a classic movie but unless people in 1978 were as sharp as a baseball bat i assume they gave similar reviews, if you re a movie critic and for some reason they had to torture you,this will be their most effective method. of course as in all bad things their most be some good and in this whole trainwreck the only remedy that kept me in my extremely painful seat is Harrison ford,that man should go straight to heaven for he having to play a role in this waste of human man power,redeemed all his sins.

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.

savovidovic Well, the movie is a flick. Just average, at most, in every aspect, even considering the time of production. It has some nice action scenes, but it's nothing like "A Bridge Too Far". It has some funny moments but it's nothing like the "Kelly's Heroes". It tries to develop as a drama but it's nothing like "The Guns of Navarone". Should I continue? :) Still, if you are fun of the WWII movies, or Harrison's fun, or just happen to have a chance to see the movie and have nothing smarter to spend two hours on, go see it! There is one more fact that needs to be pointed out. The biggest objection I have on the story is one that probably doesn't mean much to all of you who live outside the former Yugoslavia, the historic inaccuracy! And I don't mean the event itself but the characters and the organization of local resistance movements and the collaborators. I will not go into details on that here since it would take me, and you, a lot writing/reading time so just take my word for it, that part of the story is laughable bad. But again, it's an objection that can matters only to us living in former Yugoslavia, and for the rest of you I just have an advice: Don't try to learn the Balkan's WWII history from this!

skullislandsurferdotcom Seems like an action/adventure but ends up espionage and is overall a World War II film, and not a real sequel as two characters from THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, played by different actors, Robert Shaw and Edward Fox, join a group of Americans, led by Harrison Ford (basking from the prior year's STAR WARS fame), all sent from England into Yugoslavia: Ford's mission to blow up a bridge, Shaw's to kill a German agent.One must suspend disbelief to truly enjoy the plodding yet lightly involving odyssey as both missions intertwine, and you never really know which peripheral character's on the right side, adding intrigue and a fair amount of suspense.While it's much too easy for our heroes to traipse around Nazi-ridden Yugo without being killed, there's enough snags (like being captured twice by easily-tricked Germans) that you'll either forget or embrace that, for better or worse, this is complete fantasy.