I just finished watching this movie, and man was I impressed. It's better if you don't know the history here, because then it doesn't spoil the surprises. The movie started out slow (as do most movies based on true stories), but started to get good about 15 minutes into it. This was a great action film for it's time. The Muslim world needs more leaders like Omar Mukhtar.
Anthony Quinn is truly one of the greatest actors I've seen. He never lets his role veil the story. I found that he made this movie better than Braveheart, which was also a good movie, but had too much over-acting and exaggerations. Oliver Reed was also good, I wish they did more movies together. Credit to Mustapha Akkad as well, he needs to stop wasting his time with the Halloween movies, and make some more war movies, that's what he's good at.
The only problem with this film is the terrible audio, so you have to constantly play with the volume whenever it switches between fighting scenes and conversations. So keep the remote close by and enjoy!
Anthony Quinn is truly one of the greatest actors I've seen. He never lets his role veil the story. I found that he made this movie better than Braveheart, which was also a good movie, but had too much over-acting and exaggerations. Oliver Reed was also good, I wish they did more movies together. Credit to Mustapha Akkad as well, he needs to stop wasting his time with the Halloween movies, and make some more war movies, that's what he's good at.
The only problem with this film is the terrible audio, so you have to constantly play with the volume whenever it switches between fighting scenes and conversations. So keep the remote close by and enjoy!