| Title: A Bridge Too Far Starring: Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Siem Vroom, Marlies van Alcmaer, Erik van 't Wout, Wolfgang Preiss, Hans von Borsody, Josephine Peeper, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Maxwell, and Ryan O'Neal Genre: War Rated: R for extreme violence. Rating: *** (out of ****) A Bridge Too Far was an retelling of a WWII mission to capture three bridges between Belguim and Germany. The movie was in no way an action thriller, but it had it's moments. More or less, A Bridge Too Far was a movie about operation Market-Garden during WWII. It was rather long (nearly three hours) and consisted mainly of talking and lifelike renactments of the war. However, it did have a cool guy that looked and acted like Bruce Springsteen, so I guess the movie was alright after all. It was, by the way TBP, factual. Operation Market-Garden was a Allied plan (executed by the British) that was bigger then D-day itself. Thirty-five thousand Allied troops were to be paradroped (dropped by plane) behind enemy lines. These troops would secure three bridges between Belgium and Germany, all located in Holland. A second bridge full of tanks and armor units would pierce a hole in the German line and drive straight from Belguim through Holland and into Germany. To do so the Allied troops would need all three bridges secured. All three must be secured for the operation to be a sucess. But, like the title says, they went a bridge too far. Sean Connery rocked! -Alaay- |