G.I. BRO (1978)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2009
SYNOPSIS: G.I. BRO is not a good Smithee movie, nor is it a blacksploitation flick. Instead, it's a pretty good WWII movie starring Bo Svenson & Fred Williamson. Yeah!
The movie begins on an insecure note with the credit sequence. What's so insecure about a credit sequence? The title screen ("G.I. BRO" with different background & typeface than the rest of the credits) shows up six times. Six! Perfect for people with short attention spans. What was the name of this movie, again? Oh, yeah!
It's the story of a handful of military prisoners who are being transferred to the stockade for a variety of reasons (desertion, murder, theft, etc). On their way, their convoy is hit by a German attack, and the five that survive strike out for Switzerland.
On their way, they are surprised by a group of seven German soldiers, but manage to kill them all. Then they discover that the German soldiers were really Americans in disguise -- Americans who had trained for months to pull off a dangerous top-secret mission. Oops.
Of course, the convicts end up going on that mission (steal gyroscope from prototype German V2 rocket) themselves, and must pull it off without the weeks of training, and without the weeks of planning, but with only their moxie, machismo, and ... and ... willingness to KICK SOME GERMAN ASS!
Ahem. Sorry about that. When all's said and done, it really is a pretty good "We Are Better Than Them Damn Krauts" war movie.
The movie begins on an insecure note with the credit sequence. What's so insecure about a credit sequence? The title screen ("G.I. BRO" with different background & typeface than the rest of the credits) shows up six times. Six! Perfect for people with short attention spans. What was the name of this movie, again? Oh, yeah!
It's the story of a handful of military prisoners who are being transferred to the stockade for a variety of reasons (desertion, murder, theft, etc). On their way, their convoy is hit by a German attack, and the five that survive strike out for Switzerland.
On their way, they are surprised by a group of seven German soldiers, but manage to kill them all. Then they discover that the German soldiers were really Americans in disguise -- Americans who had trained for months to pull off a dangerous top-secret mission. Oops.
Of course, the convicts end up going on that mission (steal gyroscope from prototype German V2 rocket) themselves, and must pull it off without the weeks of training, and without the weeks of planning, but with only their moxie, machismo, and ... and ... willingness to KICK SOME GERMAN ASS!
Ahem. Sorry about that. When all's said and done, it really is a pretty good "We Are Better Than Them Damn Krauts" war movie.
Kevin Hogan