Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6017 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-09-10
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 121 minutes

Customer Reviews

Good old "Thud and Blunder"
THis film is based on the Alistair Maclean novel of the same name. It is quite a good, exciting film and should be enjoyed by anyone who likes this genre.
I would say that, like so many films of books, it has been changed considerably and only a few bits are recognisable. At least the end is pretty close to the book. Unfortunately one of my favourite scenes at the end was missing because one of the characters was not used.
If you like "Thud and blunder" war films you should enjoy this one, especially if you haven't read the book.

A GOOD CARRY ON.
I HAVE WATCHED A GREAT NUMBER OF WAR FILMS IN MY TIME AND THERE ARE A GREAT NUMBER OF WAR FILMS OUT THERE STILL TO BE WATCHED
WHEN IT COMES TO FORCE TEN FROM NAVARONE IT IS A GOOD CARRY ON FROM THE FIRST FILM THE GUNS OF NAVARONE. THE ACTING IS SUPERB AND THE FILM AND CAMERA WORK IS VERY VERY GOOD , ALL THIS GOES TO MAKE A WAR FILM THAT MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE .
I WOULD RECOMMEND ANY ONE WHO HASN'T GOT THIS ONE IN THEIR COLLECTION TO HURRY UP AND GET IT .I HOPE THAT THE FILM DISTRIBUTORS WILL SORT THROUGH SOME OF THE OTHER GREAT FILMS AND GET THEM DOWN ON DVD SOON, AND THERE ARE STILL A GREAT MANY.
THIS REVUE IS FAIRLY SCANT FOR A REASON ITS TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO OUT THERE AND GET IT .
I HOPE THIS REVUE HAS BEEN HELPFUL.
THE OLD HIGHFLYER.

A dull World War II adventure
When my Dad says a war film is `crap' it generally means it was made later than about 1965. There are exceptions to his general rule (A Bridge Too Far, Saving Private Ryan), but you can usually be sure that if a war film was made later than this he won't have much time for it. By the late 1970s old-fashioned heroics were given short shrift in the movies, with heroism seemingly going hand-in-hand with nostalgia in `old boys' reunion' films like The Wild Geese and The Sea Wolves. Force 10 From Navarone doesn't quite fit this mould (its leading men aren't quite of pensionable age), but this somehow renders it even more silly and out of step with the times than the other films mentioned. Compared to the earlier, big-budget Alistair MacLean adventure The Guns of Navarone (1962), this sequel looks visibly impoverished, despite its A-picture status. The performances are variable, with Robert Shaw (in his last completed film) and Edward Fox reprising the Gregory Peck and David Niven roles from the earlier film to little effect; they totally miss the danger of Peck and Niven's gritty commandos and seem to be playing the film largely for laughs (Shaw even calls Fox a `little perisher' at one point). Meanwhile, Harrison Ford, in his first starring role post-Star Wars, plays the clean-cut American Colonel as a sub-John Wayne jawbones and turns in probably his most forgettable lead performance. The Spy Who Loved Me's Barbara Bach turns up to flash some flesh in a totally gratuitous bath scene, whilst the entire part of the annoying character played by Rocky's Carl Weathers could have been cut without altering the plot of the film at all. The movie is incredibly dull, with a weak script, badly edited action scenes, and a surprising amount of very poorly post-synched dialogue, not to mention the disconcerting sight of actors familiar from Children's BBC turning up as German soldiers (say hello, Mr Bronson from Grange Hill, and Johnny Briggs' Dad). Even Jaws himself, Richard Kiel, puts in an appearance as yet another hulking villain, though his role is plainly dubbed. Considering the fact that this movie is directed by Guy `Goldfinger' Hamilton, it's a massive disappointment, a weary, unexciting watch that wastes a very good cast.