Yeah, I liked it as an 11 year old when it first came out. But after just watching again and after having military experience and common sense, so many plot elements made no sense.
Just to mention one toward the end: the British warships are coming and the Germans need to get rounds down range. We see a large gun cavity without a single German soldier in it. No way! Then we see the Germans desperately needing to get it. Remember, this is critical right? The Germans have a ton of tanks in the area. Any officer's first thought on locked doors would be to immediately blow them open with 5-6 tanks we just saw 2 blocks away in the scene when Peck and Niven were driving in. Instead, they use welding torches, LOL, to give the characters time to set the explosives. Happened in this movie but wouldn't happen one in a million in real life.
Yeah, I know, it's only a movie. But it was just too full of that kind of stuff. Like the stupid scene where 50 Germans catch the crew but only 2-3 are armed in a confined room to interview the prisoners who aren't shackled in any way. Lol. And did you notice when they left, no Germans in the outer office at all-when they were dealing with highly skilled commandos?
And by the way, no navy would blindly risk losing 6 warships simply to extricate 2000 soldiers. You'd lose 1200 sailors, plus the ships. The soldiers would have either fought or simply surrendered, right?
Just to mention one toward the end: the British warships are coming and the Germans need to get rounds down range. We see a large gun cavity without a single German soldier in it. No way! Then we see the Germans desperately needing to get it. Remember, this is critical right? The Germans have a ton of tanks in the area. Any officer's first thought on locked doors would be to immediately blow them open with 5-6 tanks we just saw 2 blocks away in the scene when Peck and Niven were driving in. Instead, they use welding torches, LOL, to give the characters time to set the explosives. Happened in this movie but wouldn't happen one in a million in real life.
Yeah, I know, it's only a movie. But it was just too full of that kind of stuff. Like the stupid scene where 50 Germans catch the crew but only 2-3 are armed in a confined room to interview the prisoners who aren't shackled in any way. Lol. And did you notice when they left, no Germans in the outer office at all-when they were dealing with highly skilled commandos?
And by the way, no navy would blindly risk losing 6 warships simply to extricate 2000 soldiers. You'd lose 1200 sailors, plus the ships. The soldiers would have either fought or simply surrendered, right?