Not necessarily from the point of view from being a great film - which it isn't. I tend to agree with most of the other reviewers in that respect.
But there's no denying that it does move at a sharpish pace.
The director of photography oddly lit the leading lady's face. Her features appear to be composed of odd angles - in some scenes.
It has the standard issue of military movie tropes - the tough sergeant-major who is really a softie; the antagonist who once wounded, reconciles with the hero; the hero, a brooding type with mysterious problems. who turns out to be decent - as we always knew he would.
Interesting in this is what they thought an action movie should be like seventy-years ago or so.
Several reviewers have mentioned that a number of the behind-the-camera talent went on to make Bond movies. I recently saw a movie - black-and-white- which predates Dr. No by several years. There's a scene in which a character flicks a tarantula off another character and stomps that poor spider to death - exactly as Mr. Bond would go on to do.
The director of photography oddly lit the leading lady's face. Her features appear to be composed of odd angles - in some scenes.
It has the standard issue of military movie tropes - the tough sergeant-major who is really a softie; the antagonist who once wounded, reconciles with the hero; the hero, a brooding type with mysterious problems. who turns out to be decent - as we always knew he would.
Interesting in this is what they thought an action movie should be like seventy-years ago or so.
Several reviewers have mentioned that a number of the behind-the-camera talent went on to make Bond movies. I recently saw a movie - black-and-white- which predates Dr. No by several years. There's a scene in which a character flicks a tarantula off another character and stomps that poor spider to death - exactly as Mr. Bond would go on to do.