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hugeposuer

This movie is engaging for the first two hours.

10 years 7 months ago

vishnu

I wish the ending was happier. [2]
AWESOME FILM!

11 years 6 months ago

Camille Deadpan

This is a good movie! but it's sooo long.

10 years 10 months ago

Impressive cast and nice story. Very good for the first 120 minutes but the final act is unnecessary long. All the preparation for the escape are really fun. Despite the setting and the final result, the movie is far from being dark and for that reason it feels like it's not completely able to tell something significant about POW as it focuses more on adventure. But you can't escape from McQueen coolness!

10 years 1 month ago

George Bailey

One of my all time favourite! And my last film on the imdb top 250 :)

13 years 4 months ago

Dieguito

good movie..

12 years 4 months ago

samith

great one.

13 years 2 months ago

Shrine_4_cinephiles

Enthralling and beautiful.one of the finest movies ever made about WW-II.an altogether different take on war movies.engrossing from the start.great ensemble.splendid job in keeping the viewer hooked on without dramatising the incident or portraying it in a heroic way.A well grounded movie still thouroughly interesting and enjoyable.

10 years 7 months ago

abdelsalam76

great movie

12 years 5 months ago

deepak1990

Awesome!

12 years 10 months ago

Earring72

Exciting, fun and thrilling true life WWII war drama! Still one of the finest ensemble pieces/war drama ever!!!!

7 years 8 months ago

Prof. Lumpcicle

A fun and safe depiction of a Nazi occupied POW camp.

12 years 3 months ago

devilsadvocado

In what is one of the most entertaining casts in cinema history, the great Richard Attenborough shines above the rest. The man can do more with his right eye than McQueen can do with his entire face + arms, and yet it's the latter star whose presence we associate with this film. A mistake in my opinion. Steve McQueen was a mediocre actor at best, nothing more than a cool presence who was genetically fortunate enough to have wrinkled well with age. He also happens to be a narcissistic douchebag, and it seems the production suffered as a result of his involvement (read the IMDB trivia section for The Great Escape if you want to know what I mean.)

My simple review is that this is a spectacularly enjoyable film, but I guess everybody already knows that.

11 years 3 months ago

Hunziker

Having just read the Paul Brickhill's book it was based on, I have new found love for this movie. It is surprisingly accurate, and on rewatch I found a lot of fascinating details I hadn't noticed before. Not only is The Great Escape a thrilling and insanely fun movie (with one of the best casts ever), it is also a tribute to the men in Stalag Luft III.

6 years 11 months ago

frankqb

A compelling tale of real-life events that unfold with a sense of urgency not often duplicated in today's cinema. The only criticism I can fire at it is that, on just one viewing, it can be difficult to learn who all the characters are.

13 years 10 months ago