In 7 words or less: Death, deceit and Deutschland in the desert
What's it all About? Set in Africa during WWII, a team of British commandos and allied-helping German Jews seek to lay siege to the fuel storage plant at Tobruk in Libya and thus severely hamper the efforts of Rommel and the Third Reich.
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Best bits? The fast moving opening sets the scene and puts questions into the mind of the viewer from the get go.
Did it make you think thoughts? I do love me some George Peppard. Obviously Colonel John 'Hannibal' Smith is one of tv's greatest characters but Georgie also shines in films such as Breakfast at Tiffany's and How the West Was Won. Here however, I can't help but feel he's been a bit miscast at the German Jew Captain Bergman and he also sports one of the worst attempted foreign accents in recent memory.
The overall feel is less a feature film and more a serialised tv drama. The three acts are distinct - plan the siege, journey to the siege, the siege itself - and at times lack a tangible cohesion (there is a somewhat misplaced murder mystery half way though).
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This does not however distract from the great script, rounded characters and cracking action scenes.
Would you watch it again? Yeah.
Rating (out of 100%): An underrated war movie that many will have missed. Rectify that now by giving it a go. I give Tobruk a sand swirling 75%
