Fresh
A big, impressive slab of drama -- maybe not a masterpiece or an epic, but a colorful story that sweeps you up and covers a lot of ground at a fast clip.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Big Red One
Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.
1980 · 2h 42m · R
Drama, War
Directed by
Samuel Fuller
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The Big Red One
Overview
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
'The Reconstruction,' which clocks in at 2 hours, 43 minutes, with not a single extraneous frame, elevates the work from a robust genre film to a full-blown epic.
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
To see this seamless 'reconstruction' -- consisting of some 15 entirely new sequences as well as augmentations to 23 others -- is to behold a masterpiece revealed.
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
Even though it has gained more than 45 minutes, it doesn't feel longer. Scenes that were choppy or half-baked are now allowed to play out as Fuller intended.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh
The director's gift for bare-knuckles lyricism rescues scene after scene.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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