Gene Hackman Movie:

		List Price: $24.99		Label: Jef Films/Mvd Salesrank: 32404 Released: March 8, 2005
		Our Price: $19.99
		Used Price: $19.96
		MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Media: DVD

March Or Die Reviews:
Sir Lew Grade Production or did you mean So Low Grade Production
2009-10-20 - The quality of the DVD copy is so bad.
Not sure were the Digitially Remastered copy went, they must have put that on a different disk.
Looks like a copy made from a VHS tape.

Movie is Okay, this DVD sucks the big one.
2009-08-07 - Don't believe anything written by AmazonPro, the second review is a bald face lie. This DVD has all the earmarks of a chinese pirated copy. It is a poor direct from VHS copy. Thier so-called "digital remastering" is nothing more than poor color saturation during the lousy transfer. The picture quality is fuzzy and the colors tend to the orange side. Take a close look at the cover photo and that is EXACTLY what the movie colors look like. The poor quality of the DVD case photos should have been enough to clue me in, but I wanted to see the movie, so I bit and wasted the money. I am firmly convinced these are pirated copies. So avoid this merchandise unless you like throwing you money away.

The movie as a bundle of time worn cliches' that we have seen in god knows how many war movies. From the lover prostituting herself to save a lover who doesn't want to be saved, to the hard but loved by his men commander, the suicide of the soft recruit who can't hack it, to the evil but chivalrous enemy to the rousing last stand, to the once rebellious recruit, now seasoned veteran standing before new inductees, filling his dead commanders boots, quoting the dead commander's now famous lines, and getting knowing nods from his veteran brothers and survivors at arms. The cliches just keep on coming. The plot will have you shaking your head in disbelief or rolling on the floor with laughter.

Yes I am a Hackman fan, but Terrance Hill gives the same performance he gave in every spagehtti western he ever starred in since My Name is Nobody.
Pretty blue eyes and a cleft chin are two attributes onto which only a shaky career can be built. This movie is an embarassing mess that I am sure Gene Hackman, Max von Sydow and Katherine Denueve and other respectable actors in it would just as soon forget. I have to think that it was directed by a Frenchman, who had never watched a hollywood war movie in his life, and thought all these cliches were new stuff. No self respecting director would have knowingly stuffed so many into 100 odd minutes.

march or die
2008-08-31 - The French Foreign Legion in North Africa just after WWI. This movie features half of the Italian western brothers(Trinity).

One of The Few "Great" Legion Films
2007-10-31 - Viewing this film was one of the really enjoyable memories of my youth. It's well done both visually and with the way it grabs you through it's well-choreographed action. I'm glad to see it available again. One note to a previous reviewer; PLEASE don't subject others to your political drivel. A simple, honest review of the subject at hand will suffice.

Military Honor and Cultural Understanding in Face of Political Treachery
2007-09-08 - This is one of the movies I turn to when I am in dispair over the nakedly amoral and utterly treasonous behavior of Dick Cheney. Gene Hackman excels in this movie made very early in his career, as an honorable Foreign Legion officer whose men respect him, an officer given what today we would recognize as an illegal order, to go into Morocco and steal antiquities.

The end result is that the mission unites the Arab tribes, something no Arab leader could every have done on their own. I am reminded of how the lies and misbehavior of the Cheney-Bush Administration have united the Islamic tribes while emboldening transnational criminal gangs and indigenous poor who now see that the global class war, corruption, dictators that we love (42 out of 44 anyway), are all imperial, evil, and not at all worthy of public support.

Other inspiring military-related movies in my collection:
Lawrence of Arabia (Single Disc Edition)
The Last Samurai [Blu-ray]
We Were Soldiers
Braveheart
The Patriot (Special Edition)
A Man Called Horse
Dances with Wolves (Full Screen Theatrical Edition)
U-571 (Collector's Edition)