Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Solidrariol
Am I Missing Something?
Alistair Olson
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
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.
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.
Spikeopath
Force 10 from Navarone is directed by Guy Hamilton and adapted to screenplay by Robin Chapman. It stars Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Edward Fox, Carl Weathers, Franco Nero, Richard Kiel and Barbara Bach. Music is by Ron Goodwin and cinematography by Christopher Challis.An unnecessary and belated follow up to The Guns of Navarone (1961), Force Ten follows the same formula but doesn't have the class of the earlier movie. It's another men on a mission movie that sees the guys en-route to blow up a dam in Second World War Yugoslavia. Cue a spy in the ranks who needs fleshing out, scrapes and tribulations involving partisans and inevitable capture, and the presence of Weathers' Sergeant Weaver gives the story a whole bunch of racial tension. Sadly suspense is very much lacking within the two hour running time, director Hamilton (probably under orders) just stringing the plot along in undemanding fashion. There's the usual quota of machismo, although Barbara Bach's token female interest tries to lower the testosterone levels, and Goodwin's brisk militarised score is pleasant enough. Cast performances are credible, with Fox the most watchable, and real Yugoslavian location usage is truly a plus point.Not awful, just hackneyed and instantly forgettable. File in the DVD cabinet under title "Disposable Men On A Mission Movies". 5/10
screenman
'Force 10 From Navarone'; except that it has nothing to do with Navarone and contains none of the original stars.A youthful Harrison Ford leads a reasonable cast featuring an embittered Negro and a couple of British characters, inevitably represented as eccentric - this time to the point of being camp. The latter is such a tiresome Hollywood pose that it might serve to explain why they always seem intent on demonstrating how America actually won the war. The British just saw it as a jolly game.This movie so blatantly trades upon the original 1960's classic that 'rip-off' is almost an understatement. But it's not the only one. We had the pukerific 'Mosquito Squadron' composed largely of out-takes from '633 Squadron' and 'The Dambusters', not to mention 'Return From The River Kwai', which had nothing to do with the River Kwai', but which - like this crap - simply traded on the name.If this movie had been simply called 'Force 10', it would have drawn the kind of indifferent response it deserved; but by grafting on 'From Navarone', it probably got twice as many bums on seats at its release.Disengaged from its pretensions; there is the substance of a decent wartime thriller here. The cast, plot, and dramatic interludes are all formulaic, but that doesn't necessarily mean dull. There's some interesting location stuff - especially within the bowels of the dam - which look well thought-out and convincing. It's just that the directorial pacing is so pedestrian, things seem to be happening at almost half-speed. That, plus the mediocre script and uninvolving characters, reduce it to a very ordinary set-piece movie. I'd like to say 'thriller', but it was just too slow. I've seen sharper documentaries. A good 30mins could have been shaved off without detriment.Worth a first watch if you haven't seen it, but not recommended; and certainly not collectible. Five to six stars is about right.
