Michael Caine is a German officer leading a group of paratroopers on an audacious mission to snatch Winston Churchill from a country retreat.
Key to the plot is that Michael Caine speaks English without a German accent. Why all the other German officers do this is never explained.
A sympathetic light is cast on the Germans, shown to be honourable men but this grates with their intentions.
The tension necessary for these band of brother style films builds slowly but is released far too early on in exchange for an extended action sequence and is never quite recovered.
An interesting attempt at mixing some originality into the formulaic but not the classic I expected.
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