18 May 2013

A mediocre movie with a terrible soundtrack

"Breakthrough" is an absurd copy of the excellent Sam Peckinpah's movie "Cross of Iron". It lacks from this standpoint originality (even the names of the characters are the same with a different story this time in the western European theather). The recreation of war scenes are fairly good (American tanks are from the Korean War though) and probably the element that barely saves the movie is the fine recreation of German uniforms (for those lovers of german WWII millitaria). The film has a soundtrack that not matches the movie at all. Even with actors of the caliber of Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, and Kurt Jurgens, "Breakthrough" is undoubtly a mediocre war movie.

Mike Mackin

18 May 2013

Concerning the 1981 movie

This is partly a response to a previous post by Vanhees Benoit on June8, 2008. I also watched the 1981 movie with Robert Mitchum and RichardBurton and see nothing on here about it, only the 1950 movie. At anyrate, this is a pretty good WWII movie concerning events around thetime of D-Day. Apparently some of Hitler's generals were planning tooff Der Führer as the Germans were retreating on both fronts. I'm notsure if this is true but it's certainly feasible. In the movie one ofthese generals sends a sergeant (Burton) to negotiate a totalcease-fire with an American colonel (Mitchum), as plans are unfoldingto kill Hitler. Of course the generals were foiled and Hitler lived,and we all know what happened after. A decent if not overwhelming WWIIepic concerning a unique subplot in the overall final Nazi defeat.