Product Details

• Actors: Stelvio Rosi (II), Erna Schürer, Guy Madison, Rubén Rojo, Roberto Maldera
• Format: Color, EP, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Troma
• VHS Release Date: February 13, 2001
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305281947
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #460,636 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disaster of the last Panzer, December 15, 2000

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Battle of the Last Panzer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was very displeased with the move and found it intolerable to sit through the whole picture. ... A honest review from a true military buff!!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Good, February 10, 2005

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SGTUrrutia "kc" (South Dakota, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battle of the Last Panzer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I would not recommend this movie to anyone. The vocal/visual movements of the mouths did not match up throughout the whole movie. The helmets the Americans were using were not correct. The weaponry that the Amercans were using were not correct, as well. The weapons that the Americans were using, weren't even used in WWII; they weren't even invented yet!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bad war film that should have been better, June 25, 2009

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TrezKu13 (Norfolk, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battle of the Last Panzer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After a failed tank assault against American defenses, a surviving German tank crew teams up with some more survivors to rebuild their Panzer and try to make it behind enemy lines. Pursued by American forces and French guerrillas, the German tankers fight against enemies as well as combating each other.

"Battle of the Last Panzer" has an interesting storyline that should have been better - in fact it was given better (though not perfect) delivery in the later film "The Beast," about a Soviet tank caught behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. By the end of the film the viewer is left very disappointed by what he's come across.

Part of the problem is that this is a "spaghetti" war film. Now, I've always been a huge fan of spaghetti westerns, but the faults that were hidden in those movies come out clear as day here. There's nothing more hilarious than seeing desert terrain passed off as France, and actors who are clearly Italians (swarthy skin, dark hair, Mediterranean composition) passed off as Frenchman. The dubbing, which is usually passable in the westerns, is here really obvious. Sometimes the voice tracking is so bad that for a second I thought I was watching a Godzilla film.

There are oodles of more problems not directly related to the Italian origins of this film. The German tanks are, typical of most WWII films of the time period, simply American tanks with German crosses painted on them. The American uniforms look like Yugoslav uniforms. An American officer wears his rank on his helmet sideways.

There is one good scene, near the end, where the Germans fight off an attack by French guerrillas. Unfortunately, it is too little too late, and the madness/desperation of the German forces is not emphasized enough.

To top this all off, this has some REALLY bad writing. Check out this monologue by the female lead:

"God breathed into dust, and God made man, and when God disappears, there's only dust again. I'd always believed that a man should be like cement...a block of cement...without ever realizing that cement after all is dust...that only man has the breadth of life."

Yeah...that sums up the movie nicely.