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The story is ludicrous (of course), the special effects cheesy (the oh so phoney-looking flood that destroys the bridge), a post-Star Wars Harrison Ford barely registers as a character and Carl Weathers plays Apollo Creed again, this time in Army green. Most of the other actors are pretty good, Robert Shaw and Edward Fox especially, and Barbara Bach looks luscious (and as a bonus, she gets about as naked as you can get in a PG-rated movie).

In short, this movie is clearly inferior to the original "Navarone" as well as other MacLean-inspired movies like "Where Eagles Dare" and "Ice Station Zebra." Inferior doesn't mean bad, but it's still the worst movie that I've ever seen more than 5 times.

Force 10 From Navarone ... A Beautiful Print!
I had been waiting for this title to come out in widesceen for some time. This film's greatest asset is its beautifully photographed landscapes. This DVD delivers these vivid images very strikingly and makes the film very enjoyable to view. This is not such a bad sequel as I thought when I first saw it on its original theatrical release. It is almost not a true sequel since characters and events referred to in "The Guns of Navarone" have either been altered or did not exist in the original. However, it still follows thematically with the original: a small band of Allied soldiers in W.W.II, penetrate a Nazi stronghold with the odds against them on an improbable mission. The score by Ron Goodwin is in the same vein as his "Where Eagles Dare" masterpiece. One interesting note about this DVD is that it offers both widescreen and Pan & Scan versions of the film. However, I believe the widescreen version to be from a British print, while the Pan & Scan version is the American version. There is different dialog between the two prints. That was an added bonus.

Great WWII action movie!
First off, I enjoy anything having to do with World War II. I remember seeing this movie as a kid before I saw the original "Guns of Navarone." I was flipping channels last night and saw that "Force 10" was on. I watched it and remembered how much I enjoyed it the first time.

Not only does this film focus on a remote battlefield (remote in the sense that it's not a Normandy or anything you might have seen in "Patton"), but it provides an exciting story that the viewer just can't forget. After so many years, I fondly remembered Carl Weathers' knife fight with that big guy (the name escapes me, but he played the character Jaws in two Bond films), the amusing explosives expert Miller, and all the crazy twists and turns that took the commandos to their final objective - destroy a dam to destroy a bridge. (What I never understood, though, was why didn't the Germans just have their armored and infantry divisions cross the dam rather than face hostile fire on the bridge from the Partisans!).

Anyhow, the film is great. They just don't make movies like this anymore. Harrison Ford and Robert Shaw (and the rest) make a great team, best shown when they walk cavalierly away from that ticking bomb that's about to explode in the dam! Yes, a great war flick that I highly recommend and rank right up there with the best.