Running 178 minutes with limited material, padding with superfluous, excess material is to be expected, yet padding is least of this film's worries when it comes to tightness, even though you know that they would have pump an extra large dose of excess material in this film to even out the many rushed spots.

Still, even though that film was a mess, it's still certainly better than this film, which isn't to say that this film is bad, though it is to say that it is more of a mess. I said having made plans to watch the film a third time somewhere down the 'line' (Sorry, but pun definately intended). I don't know why I would need a rifle maybe it would just be for my suicide plan, just in case the war movie they show is 'The Thin Red Line', because although I liked the film, well, seriously Terrence, that's too much of a snoozefest.

Hey, if that's the case, then hand me my rifle and send me back to the trenches, because I'm hooked on the thrills of war. If it's just highlights, then it would probably be shorter, because these war films that we do actually have run about the span of an entire war. One can only imagine how long the war film that actually covers the highlight of an entire war would be. Don't get me wrong, I love a good war movie, and almost all of these films' long lengths work, but seriously people, I don't know how many times we have to watch people walk around and blow each other up here and there for three hours. Though it overemphasizes the historical information over the storytelling at times, The Longest Day is an extraordinarily powerful film about a seminal event in world history.Ī day with this film on has got to be the longest day. Still, the coverage of the various battle fronts on the land and sea is comprehensive, and gives a sense of scope to how massive the operation was. There's also very little blood and carnage which is indicative of the time in which the film was made. However, there's a bit of jingoism going on, as the Nazi's are shown mostly as incompetent and the American/British forces are selfless and brave. Featuring John Wayne, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Red Buttons, Henry Fonda, and Roddy McDowall (just to name a few), the ensemble cast that's been assembled is incredible. Shot in a docudrama style, the film emphasizes several dozen Allied and Axis leaders and follows their actions during the course of the invasion. A sweeping World War II epic, The Longest Day tells the story behind the Normandy invasion one of the most daring and complex military operations ever conceived.

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