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The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988)
Cheese-laden trash stuck in 60s era production
the Germans all stand out in the open and get mowed down with a machine gun. the Good guys never die, unless its for dramatic purposes. the "plot" has so many holes its laughable. (Where did the German soldiers go once they rolled the fuel tank towards the train? Erik Estrada? Please!) And the whole idea, hijacking a train? How moronic is that! The Germans KNOW where you are going to go, its not like you can leave the track and drive away! What a waste. I would rather bonk myself on the head with a ball peen hammer 10 times then have to sit through that again. I mean, seriously, it FELT like it was made in the 60s, but it was produced in 88!! 1988!! the A-Team is more believable than this horrid excuse for a movie. Only watch it if you need a good laugh. This movie is to Tele Sevalas what Green Beret was to John Wayne.
The Green Berets (1968)
Like the A-Team goes to Narnia
Sharing the same politics with the producers does not turn a horrible movie into a good movie. This movie is worse than jingoistic and hackneyed, its full of fake sentimentality and laden with the type of shoot-em up scenes out of WWII movies. Actually, thats what this movie is, its a WWII style visit to Vietnam that can only be compared to the Dirty Dozen: Fatal Mission TV movie. And Tele Sevalas put more into his lead than big John did. Ah well, what do you want with sets as fake as Hollywood backdrops and lines that drop like wood in an empty auditorium.
You cant even call this a movie about Vietnam, its a John Wayne war movie that is set in the jungles of California.
And its horrible.