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Movie Profile
The Big Red One
1980 · United States - Samuel Fuller
The story's focus is on four privates and their squad leader, a sergeant, serving in a rifle company, who survive the war from beginning to end. Thus becoming known as "The Sergeant's Four Horsemen" as early as North Africa and Sicily. The body of the movie consists of a series of episodes highlighting the insanity and grotesqueness of war.
Genres:
War, History, Drama, Action, Adventure
Release date:
1980-07-18
External links:
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Rotten Tomatoes
17 Critic reviews
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Variety
March 26, 2009 read full article
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Hollywood Reporter
May 20, 2005 read full article
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Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
A big, impressive slab of drama -- maybe not a masterpiece or an epic, but a colorful story that sweeps you up and covers a lot of ground at a fast clip.
January 20, 2005 read full article
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Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
'The Reconstruction,' which clocks in at 2 hours, 43 minutes, with not a single extraneous frame, elevates the work from a robust genre film to a full-blown epic.
January 20, 2005 read full article
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
December 08, 2004 read full article
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Ty Burr
Boston Globe
The director's gift for bare-knuckles lyricism rescues scene after scene.
December 03, 2004 read full article
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Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
If you don't elect to watch The Big Red One through the lens of Sam Fuller's mystique ... you'll realize that it has been celebrated in ways that essentially make virtues of its flaws.
December 02, 2004 read full article
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Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
In its own rough and still unfinished way, The Big Red One works -- as a memoir of a time, and a movie of the war.
November 15, 2004 read full article
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Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
Alas, the lost version of Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One of 1980 has been found -- reassembled, actually, by the distinguished film critic Richard Schickel -- and it's a lot less than legendary. It isn't even very good.
November 12, 2004 read full article
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Jami Bernard
New York Daily News
The combination of old-time Hollywood valor and ahead-of-its-time surprises makes this restoration a big event.
November 12, 2004 read full article
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Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
What the movie may lack in Saving Private Ryan-style gloss, it more than makes up for in authenticity, or, in other words, heart.
November 11, 2004 read full article
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A.O. Scott
New York Times
Seven years after Fuller's death, 24 years after its initial, botched release, and almost 60 years after V-E day, The Big Red One is finally here, in a form close to what Fuller intended.
November 11, 2004 read full article
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Anthony Lane
New Yorker
You must see this film for one unstoppable reason, and that is Lee Marvin.
November 09, 2004 read full article
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J. Hoberman
Village Voice
The Big Red One isn't even Fuller's greatest war film. Of those, I'd rank it fourth -- but that's not half bad.
November 09, 2004 read full article
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Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
October 23, 2004 read full article
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Charles Taylor
Salon.com
As the longest and biggest of Fuller's movies, it magnifies the essence -- good and bad -- of his work.
October 06, 2004 read full article
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Vincent Canby
New York Times
May 20, 2003 read full article
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