I guess the title and basic premise are enough to make you think of The Dirty Dozen, but tonally and stylistically it's quite different. It's colder and definitely more detached, and though it's not maudlin to the point where it completely lacks entertainment value, it does lack the dark humor and sometimes oddly endearing characters that other "Dirty" World War II movie had.
Every time I watch one of these well-received yet not very widely seen Michael Caine movies, I come away impressed. He was in a lot of movies over the years, and sure, not all of them were good necessarily... but there are many more hidden gems than one might expect, and I've only really scratched the surface when it comes to his interesting yet overlooked '60s/'70s stuff.
Every time I watch one of these well-received yet not very widely seen Michael Caine movies, I come away impressed. He was in a lot of movies over the years, and sure, not all of them were good necessarily... but there are many more hidden gems than one might expect, and I've only really scratched the surface when it comes to his interesting yet overlooked '60s/'70s stuff.