Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Very violent and at times, sensitive anti war film. Wilde proves once more his talents as a director. This is one of those movies, that although it isn't a favourite, I return to periodically. Many critics on IMDb have mentioned it's influence/similarity to saving private ryan and The thin red line. You can see where they're coming from. Although I don't tjhink it's in the same league, it's still a worthwhile companion piece. One thing I noticed. Rip Torn was the only actor who had what would be considered an army haircut.

I find it hard to believe most of the other reviews of this film.Sure, it points out that war of any kind isn't a walk in the park, but the presentation was dreadful.The acting was abysmal. The early sequences before landing clearly used the old Hollywood trick of close-ups of actors in front of a projected background, shots (particularly of machine gun positions) kept getting re-used in different locations and the action was repeatedly interrupted by the leads drifting off into dreamland.I gave up shortly after MacDonald saw a Japanese soldier recovering after a grenade attack pulling a pistol to shoot a nearby American. MacDonald, who had his .45 in his hand just stood there yelling a warning and only used his weapon after the American was killed. That's really the kind of leader you want watching your back. Not!

Beach Red could have been a great war movie. It has great scenery, good photography, a good story and a pretty good cast. A WWII US Marine movie with Rip Torn as a Gunny has to try very hard to not be good. But this movie went above and beyond in it's headlong rush towards mediocrity. Beach Red doesn't even get started before getting boring. Cornel Wilde, as Capt. MacDonald is just dull. His constant musing, in the form of out loud thoughts, gets more and more annoying as the movie goes on. Even more annoying is the constant whining by Patrick Wolfe (Pvt. Cliff). I guess the director (Cornel Wilde) really, really liked him because he gets more close ups than Mister Ed did in the TV show Mister Ed. And his attempts to show emotion through facial expressions gets pretty nauseating. Mister Ed was better at that and he was a horse. Mister Ed was a better actor too.Overall this movie, along with Thin Red Line, suffers from what I refer to as a hippie influence. It has a campy feel to it. The overbearing music and constant flashbacks to family, women from the past and even a cockroach getting stepped on gets annoying after a while. The explosions are not very good and most of the guys that get killed fall over in cartoon fashion. The combat scenes are mediocre and fail to make you feel like you are there. Somehow a sniper manages to shoot two guys with one bullet. Not impossible but unlikely when he's above them, in a tree. At one point Pvt. Cliff is on a patrol and gets sergeant stripes halfway through. Later, on the same patrol, he doesn't have them anymore. Close ups of various bugs and flowers says hippie to me.There are some good points. Burr DeBenning, as Egan, provides a bit of comedy and the less annoying flashbacks. Rip Torn is good as a tough as nails marine Gunnery Sergeant. Jaime Sánchez plays a marine who wants nothing more than to get out of the war alive and will take any opportunity to get out but still does his job. The guys playing the Japanese officers seem to be pretty good actors but the enlisted guys don't. They are mostly young so maybe they were just inexperienced. There's a pretty good attempt by the japs to pull a surprise attack which is the climax of the movie and at least brings some war to this war movie. The Japanese are portrayed as real soldiers too and have their own flashbacks. They speak Japanese but there's no subtitles. You can usually figure out what's being said though so it's not too important. As usual they get mowed down by the dozen but they really did in the war so it's a fair cop. If they ever tried the sneak attack plan as shown in Beach Red, I've never heard of it. But I thought it added some tension to this rather dull war movie.In the end I toss it on the pile with a bunch of other mediocre war movies and give it 6/10. Worth a watch.

Despite Burr DeBenning's and Rip Torn's best efforts at overacting, there is absolutely nothing funny about this film. BEACH RED is one of the most straight-faced and poignant visions of World War II, featuring a lot more heart and humanity than most others of the era and production values which betray its small budget.Wilde had more creative control over this than any of his other projects and used it as nothing less than a damning condemnation of war not seen since ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. The Japanese aren't subtitled but are presented as just as human as the Americans, and everything appears fair and balanced without any jingoism, patriotism, or bravado in the slightest.It opens with us introduced with many low-level marines who bond and bicker while their landing boat approaches a deadly beach. What follows is some of the most harrowing war action seen up until recently in the likes of PLATOON or SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, and it doesn't let up for the next 20 minutes. This opening action is really top-notch, featuring plenty of pyrotechnics, massed extras, vintage Walker-Bulldog tanks, and even some flamethrowers. The real stand-out shot is when the pinned-down soldiers look back to the beach to see a lone G.I. staggering around with his left arm blown off. Truly powerful.At around this point the film makes a transition to flashback mode with lots of still images used for dramatic effect to show what all the players have to lose by the war. I don't think I've ever seen a film with this many stills, and they work just as well as (or better than) the live-action footage. In the end, it makes the deaths of even the most minor characters quite profoundly tragic. In the end, men have died, dreams have been crushed, memories lost... and just to take control of some obscure island in the Pacific.This was one of those many war films I remember catching on TBS back when I was 7 or 8. For some reason it always stood out to me, even though I was far too young to catch the meaning of it. However, as an adult and finally able to see it via DVD, I've come to appreciate it on a deeper level every time I can bear to watch it. An experimental, though not entirely successful film, BEACH RED is however the war film that most effectively communicates the tragedy of death in war.