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The most daring rescue mission of our time is a story that has never been told
2005 · 2h 12m · R
Action, History, War
Directed by
John Dahl
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
Top critics, in their words
While one might have wished for a better movie, and a few smarter decisions regarding the screenplay, generally it's a riveting, even inspirational account of an American feat of arms about which few know but about which many more should.
Feels less like a rousing action adventure than a military-sponsored lesson in invincible patriotic payback.
Dahl's approach may be somewhat pedestrian, but he tells his story clearly and with few unnecessary detours.
The story line is telegraphed from word one and the meticulous unfolding plot plods ahead inexorably without the slightest bit of suspense.
This smart, unhurried drama plays out like a retro version of Saving Private Ryan.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Drama · Thriller · War · R
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris whic...
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