rodrig58 A famous film signed by J. Lee Thompson, with many great names. I've seen it many times. When I was a teenager I liked it. Watched once again in May 2018, I did not like it so much, it is too slow, too long, too monotonous, too exaggerated. It's nice to see Anthony Quinn again, back to Greece, being Greek again. As for the "great" Gregory Peck, as far as I'm concerned, like Clint Eastwood, he was just another American with a big carrot in his ass, always.

jimbo-53-186511 A British team are tasked with entering occupied Greece and destroying a large gun tower on the island of Navarone. With the gun tower being heavily guarded by the Nazis, the team have to use their ingenuity to outfox the Germans.The Guns Of Navarone is a good story and to be fair it had enough going for it to hold my interest, but unfortunately it's a film that I found to be sporadically thrilling and compelling rather than consistently compelling and thrilling.The first thing has to be addressed is the length of the film and one thing I really don't like is a film that spends an awful long time just setting up the plot - sometimes this can work with complex plots that need to introduce several characters or films that involve interwoven stories, but where the plot is rather linear such as it is in The Guns Of Navarone I would have much preferred it if we'd have got to the crux of the plot much sooner (some of the earlier scenes felt rather redundant and didn't seem to do much to drive the narrative forward). Although the slightly plodding pace is more of a problem in the first half sadly examples of it are dotted throughout the film - director J Lee Thompson seems to use a lot of long takes which admittedly look good, but inevitably just add unnecessary length to the picture.The cast are a key to make this work and although David Niven has top billing (according to IMDb) it is very much Gregory Peck who is the lead actor here and he does a great job giving a rather calm and understated performance as the 'voice of authority'. David Niven is also excellent in what I would class as a 'supporting role' in this film.Still as I've mentioned it has enough about it to make it worth watching - although J Lee Thompson seems to have tried to turn this into some kind of epic he does mostly keep the story on track and it does slowly manifest itself into an intriguing battle of wits. It's certainly worth a look and probably would have been even better if the running time would have been trimmed slightly.

writers_reign It's perhaps inevitable that coming upon something that has been acclaimed some fifty-odd years later tends to dim the lustre. As I watched this film - in 2014 - after reading some of the comments here on IMDb, many of which spoke of it as the greatest action adventure ever plus lots of similar comments, I couldn't help asking what all the fuss was about whilst being able to think of several titles that easily eclipse it, such as The Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare etc. It's difficult to fault the casting and, of course, Gregory Peck alone could have carried it - and while we're at it, Peck's Twelve O'Clock High, made for a fiftieth of the budget and shot in the Fox studio, leaves GON for dead - yet for me there was no sense of the festering bitterness Quinn allegedly felt toward Peck, which could have created far more tension; scenes like the boat going aground on the rocks were padded to three times the length they could support and after all that they failed to carry the story forward. In terms of actual action, a film like this demands a series of peaks and troughs so that once every ten or twelve minutes there should be something memorable action-wise but here it was something of a one-trick pony so that the feeling was the budget was being spent on the final (theoretical) spectacular explosion but in the event it proved to be something of a damp squib. Two and a half hours was a good hour too much for what it delivered but I guess it's worth a look.

Bhavya Ranjan Direction is great..story is real..acting is outstanding...more i see this movie more I understand about reality of ground...Leadership quality team work dedication towards results movie picturization is also a Top class. I have seen saving private ryan but this war movie is all about team play. Such type of movie comes after long time..such type of great events happens very rare..such real hero comes after long time...It is really a great movie to know about such heros...it is not sci fi movie it is movie which above then many standards...After seeing this movie there is no need of seeing another movie...searching such story making great movie to wonderful picturization is not that much easy the way happened in this movie..everything was great standard.....