The Guns of Navarone

A war film that plays like an adventure, albeit a very talkative one. I expected it to be worse, I'm not big on classic war cinema after all, but the film certainly has its moments. It's a shame they dragged it out to stretch beyond the 150-minute mark, that really brought down the overall quality.

A group of six soldiers is sent on a suicide mission. Their job is to get rid of German canons stationed in Navarone. The canons are strategically significant and while they are active the Brits have no chance of getting the upper hand on the Germans. While nobody expects the men to succeed, they go above and beyond to complete their mission.

There are some great set pieces and the action scenes do get pretty tense. The characters are pretty drab though and there is way too much dialogue. The moral dilemmas aren't that interesting either, they just drag out the film even further. A slimmed down version would've been preferable, as it is now there were too many dead moments.