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efilmcritic.com - : Less a story and more a collection of anecdotes, The Big Red One follows four soldiers (Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco and Kelly Ward) and their hard-as-nails Sergeant (Lee Marvin) as they traipse around Europe and North Africa, offing Germans and trying not to get greased as their replacement soldiers eat it, one after another. And that's basically it. more...
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2/5
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www.filmcritic.com - : The Big Red One was meant to be the culmination of a life’s work, an epic story that would allow Fuller to use his ugly experiences as a veteran to puncture the hallowed fictions of World War II cinema, while still delivering a rock ’em, sock ’em Lee Marvin war movie.It didn’t come to pass. more...
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3/5
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Sam Fuller's ''The Big Red One'' is a lot of war stories strung together in a row, almost as if the director filmed it for the thirty-fifth reunion of his old Army outfit, and didn't want to leave anybody out. That's one of the most interesting things about it -- the feeling that the movie's events are included, not because they help the plot or make a point, but just because they happened. more...
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3/4
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