Good movie but grossly overrated

good back-story, and good acting

Brilliant and touching

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

In a nut shell...I tried to watch this when it came out, fell asleep after 15 minutes of it (the dairy farm bit).Its taken me this long to watch it. So it is a Tarantino film, bloody, gory but in a serious comical way. This film is great if you have time to read (unless your fluent in both French and German. Great story, I do not know if it is true to life, but you would hope so. A brilliant story and a great ending. Not as good as Django Unchained.Serious note, the best actor would be Christoph Waltz...he made his character real. Brad Pitt was in the film but I would say as a cameo...plus could not understand a flipping word he said. Melanie Laurent amazing too. We can not see such talent until its out in our face and I have seen some of it.

This is another embarrassingly bad attempt by the Italians to produce a WWII movie - this time inspired (if that's the right word) by 'The Dirty Dozen'. The action - and I use the word in its loosest possible sense - is reminiscent of the Keystone Cops. Hand grenades are thrown and bodies pop up into the air like champagne corks in the most absurdly comic fashion. The most - make that the only - interesting thing about this film is the appearance of Ian Bannen. I imagine he is still trying to live down his part in this absolute dog. I can only assume he needed the money. If you insist upon watching this appalling piece of drivel, I would strongly recommend a full lobotomy beforehand - it may make the experience less painful.

I viewed this film as i'm a great fan of the 2009 Quinten T version so I thought i would check of this as a reference. The two films are two different pieces of work except for one thing which is they are beautifully shot. This version really can't make up its mind what it wants to be as the plot somewhat changes as it goes along and is quiet boring in parts as there are sub plots and an abrupt clumsy ending however as a B movie its one of the better ones you could see. The acting is fine its just the script that lets it down. The Dirty Dozen has a start middle and end so does Inglourious 2009, still worth watching once.

This film may be from 1978, but it looks at least 10-15 years older than that. You will see an awful lot of German soldiers hurling their weapons in the air as if they were made of plastic and jumping as high as possible while waving their arms. This means they have either been gunned down or blown up by bombs. A single stab wound, a punch or a kick to the face, or a tap to the small of the back with a barrel of a gun causes immediate death or unconsciousness to the fragile enemy Germans. Sometimes the Germans are so in shock at seeing the Americans that they just stand there, waiting to get shot or punched. It's pretty funny, really. The fire scenes are totally unrealistic and look like someone set some toys on fire. I watched the UNCUT EDITION and assume the exploding blood packs used toward the end of the movie were not seen in the original. Take away the blood packs and you got a family film.The storyline wasn't bad except the part about the German POW who escaped (meaning he didn't like being a POW) and is again captured but sides with the Americans... and the pickpocket who had been in jail so long that his hair had grown hippie length but always had a close shave.The acting itself was solid and very believable. Other than that, Quel maledetto treno blindato is pretty much like a cartoon. It is an excellent time killer on a rainy Saturday afternoon.