IMDb plot summary: A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
Directed by Brian G. Hutton. Starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, and Carroll O'Connor.
What a strange little combat heist film. It's got some good moments, and the most entertainingly bizarre performance I've ever seen from Donald Sutherland, but it gets messy when it tries to mix heist hijincks with wartime missions. There's a sequence in which some members of their team die, and it can hardly be framed as any kind of "they gave their life for their country" noble sacrifice -- they died going AWOL to rob a bank. It becomes a lot harder to root for everyone after that. The final sequence also feels more combat film than heist, and as such loses my interest almost entirely. But I can see people enjoying this, even if it made a few choices that pushed it further down for me.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Kelly's Heroes < Man on Fire
Kelly's Heroes > Weekend
Kelly's Heroes < Dark City
Kelly's Heroes < The Barkleys of Broadway
Kelly's Heroes > Martha Marcy May Marlene
Kelly's Heroes < Come to the Stable
Kelly's Heroes > Copying Beethoven
Kelly's Heroes < Zelig
Kelly's Heroes < Lilo & Stitch
Kelly's Heroes > Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Kelly's Heroes > Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Kelly's Heroes < It's Always Fair Weather
Final spot: #2228 out of 3141.
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