From A to Z in 2012
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The violence which liberal critics found so offensive has survived intact. Aldrich sets up dispensable characters with no past and no future, as Marvin reprieves a bunch of death row prisoners, forges them into a tough fighting unit, and leads them on a suicide mission into Nazi France. Apart from the values of team spirit, cudgeled by Marvin into his dropout group, Aldrich appears to be against everything: anti-military, anti-Establishment, anti-women, anti-religion, anti-culture, anti-life. Overriding such nihilism is the super-crudity of Aldrich’s energy and his humour, sufficiently cynical to suggest that the whole thing is a game anyway, a spectacle that demands an audience. [ wikipedia ]
pict by [ dewil.ch ] (cc) JHB, December 11 2011
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