Cross of Iron Rating: Release Date: 01 February, 2000 Retail Price: $29.99 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: Maximilian Schell James Mason David Warner Senta Berger Complete Cast (6 total)

Cross of Iron Reviews

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Great, gritty, grungy and real
Saw this one on televison. Having read the novel, I found a few things not in line but none the less I find this a superb piece of work. A far cry from the politically correct junk produced by hollywood today. Wish Hollywood would produce films like this again.

James Coburn is supurb in performance playing a German NCO on the Russian front who despite war's brutality and the regime he serves manages to preserve his own humanity both with the men under his command and even with his enemy. He exists in a world more in line with Bill Mauldin's Joe and Willy than the smart set image of Hitler's propoganda machine.

James Mason plays an officer one can admire.

Maxamillian Schell plays one readily despicable. Cowardly, arrogant, incompotent anda real backstabber who uses his connections to get what he wants rather than merit. An 'Iron Cross Jackal' bent on obtaining rewards earned by others. (His aid is homosexual, both here in the movie and in the novel which is more graphic about him which really aught to correct things put out by the left on this subject).

Fighting scenes brutal and accurate. Uniforms and settings in great detail. The ending though appropriate is sad.

Boring, dull, pointless
Here's a brief synopsis:

People with German accents, hiding in a bunker in the woods. Lots of talking. Occasionally, they peek out and these random Hollywood explosions start happening. A few slow motion shots of people dropping dead.

I rented this movie expecting a good depiction of some World War II battles. I wanted to see strategy...I wanted to see different battle theatres...instead, I got hundreds of shots of a few guys in the same location with occasional explosions. Boring. The only people I think that truly enjoy this movie either liked it when it first came out or like it just because Sam Peckinpah directed it. Truly forgettable.

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