![]() Hey, isn’t that the American Dream they are screwing with?Ĭynical, goofy, dry and a little wayward, this is the kind of film where the characters go by silly nametags like Crapgame, Oddball, and Big Joe. Hutton is treating the plains of war and their grand cinematic treatment with a swallow of disgust -why the hell shouldn’t these grab-bag weirdoes chase the loot? - but his accusations feel contemporary. ![]() ![]() And Oddball, Donald Sutherland’s oafish, vacant tank commander, is pure anachronism, a dopehead flower-child afloat twenty years before he should even exist. Greed is their motivation, the ideals of war can go hang. The tone is slightly whimsical and amoral, with its ragged gang of hoodlums out for themselves hardly the sturdy warriors of celluloid history. A curious fusion of men-on-a-mission and caper flick, this late ‘60s war movie is arguably much more about Vietnam than it is the WWII setting it nominally dwells inside.
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