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on April 14, 2017
Love this movie. Give it five stars if reviewing the movie. The Blu-Ray is horrible. Transfer is extremely grainy and the colors are all out of whack. When the Allies make the first drop, the sky randomly turns into a bright pink.
on September 14, 2011
Blu-rays do not have region codes... Or so we thought. I live in Australia and often order Blu-ray from Amazon US and Amazon UK.The resin I get Blu-ray disks is that they are not region coded. This disk, however, is. I have a region '0' Blu-ray player and still it came up with a screen that said you have to have a US player. I have tried it on 4 players and all do the same thing. All of the other Blu-ray disks that I have ordered work with no problems at all. Still... It is a great film, even if I could not watch not watch it on Blu-Ray.
on June 4, 2016
just another bad WWII movie from the 70's. bad script, bad direction and generally unrealistic on just about every level. lots of "Gerry, Tommy and Tally Ho!" cross between Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Pearl Harbor from 2001. if you feel compelled to watch it I suppose its just about endurable but otherwise give it a miss.
on September 6, 2016
OK as a star vehicle and cameo collection, with some excellent jump film and wall river crossing scenes, but a patchy history at best. Basically a cliched movie.
on November 4, 2014
In fairness, this movie was made in the 70s and is bound to appear dated when compared to more modern films. But reading other reviews comparing A Bridge Too Far with films like Saving Private Ryan really leaves me scratching my head. Completely different animals. People say ABTF earns points for historical accuracy, so I'll assume they're right and give it a star for that. But beyond that ... wow, I'm not sure where to start. Horrible script/screenplay - it's really painful to see such a great cast having to choke out such stupid, canned, predictable lines. Maybe the terrible writing explains the wooden acting coming from many of the usually very talented cast members. And the storyline was all over the place - I found it impossible to develop any sympathy/connection with any of the (seemingly thousands of) characters. With the exception of the scenes showing airborne troops parachuting into action, I didn't find any of the battle scenes convincing, at least not in any kind of modern sense. Typical 70s war movie stuff, but without the wit or smarts that made movies like Patton stand above the rest. The most generous description I can give of this movie - which is endless, by the way at 2.5+ hours - is that of a dramatized documentary (again, assuming the historical accuracy is sound) using movie stars. After reading the rave reviews here, and considering the cast, I thought ABTF might be something other than the standard for the era and might, perhaps, have an artistic feel to it (there is a hint of this in the very beginning) or something other than just a straight retelling of the Operation Market Garden story. But, alas, it comes off as a huge production that tried to do too much, suffered from bad writing and bad acting despite the cast, and ultimately got so out of hand that the producers/directors simply cobbled it together and released it. Torturous to watch. My advice: if you want to learn about Operation Market Garden, then read a book or watch a true documentary. If you're looking for a quality WWII movie that's more than just a bunch of explosions and actually explores the human element in some kind of meaningful way, then watch Saving Private Ryan, Patton, or possibly Fury, which has just been released (I haven't seen it, but hear it's fabulous).
on February 26, 2015
impossible to watch garbled bad disc
on December 15, 2015
could not watch it i do not have a blue ray machine
