The Dirty Dozen
was/is the ultimate guy’s movie. It has a pretty standard plot -
a varied group of men pulled from a military prison are hired to
conduct a raid behind German lines – but the ensemble - Lee
Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Richard Jaeckel,
George Kennedy, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, Clint Walker and John
Cassavetes - give life to such memorable gun-toting characters, that it
plays all the more better than your typical standard shoot ‘em
up. On top of that, it also pulls a few brave punches –
near the end of the film, especially, where it has some of the
so-called ‘good guys’ doing some rather horrendous things
– nudging the film closer to reality. Seems no action hero is as
squeaky-clean as we’re led to believe. Makes it all the more
real, too. EXTRAS
The newly reissued DVD is a two-disc’er containing the comprehensive
featurette “Armed and Deadly: The Making of The Dirty Dozen”, a
30-minute recruitment documentary, a vintage featurette (rather cheesy)
and, most notably, a bonus movie (!) 1985’s The Dirty Dozen: The Next
Mission. Not much of a movie that one, though.
Conclusion:
Movie 80% Extras: 70%
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