This movie, unlike, say, The Guns of Navarone, has aged very, very well. Just keep in mind that it's a male fantasy film that just happens to be set during WWII. Like other male fantasy films, it involves one heroic individual using wholesale levels of violence to persevere over evil at impossible odds (hence the fantasy). If you liked male fantasy film Goldfinger and its FIVE DIGIT combination to the Fort Knox Gold Depository vault, which I did, then you'll love this film. The acting is terrific, the characters are unforgettable and the ending will leave you stunned. No one but Sinatra could have played Ryan.
One other comment--the sound effect used for the German machine pistols used throughout this movie is the best among all Hollywood productions I have seen (this sound is presumably yet another fantasy). That sound effect alone is worth the price of the rental.
One other comment--the sound effect used for the German machine pistols used throughout this movie is the best among all Hollywood productions I have seen (this sound is presumably yet another fantasy). That sound effect alone is worth the price of the rental.