The film ALMOST got me to care.....almost.

MartinHafer

While the title to this film is "Anzio", it isn't exactly the famous Battle of Anzio. The battle resulted in 30,000 American casualties--so it was a HUGE battle. But, in this film it's only a battle of a few dozen against a few dozen--and it's really not THE battle of Anzio--it's A battle at Anzio! Now this might have worked, but the film really never kept my attention.

The main characters in this film are Robert Mitchum (as a war correspondent), Peter Falk and Earl Holliman. All three are in a group of soldiers who are in the advance of an invasion of American soldiers in Italy during WWII. But what most of the film is is just just seeing these small group of soldiers fighting and dying...and nothing else. You get no sense of who won the battle, why the battle was fought or of the enemy--just faceless folks shooting at each other and folks dying. Despite these talented men in the leads, the film just never amounted to anything but watching guys die.

Curiously uninvolving and not particularly interesting. This film needed a better script and some reason to exist.

score 4/10

MartinHafer 2 February 2012

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2559845/