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on May 16, 2016
This is not "Patton II", so don't come into it expecting exciting battle scenes. It appears to originally been a Made for TV movie following Patton's time as the Military Governor of Bavaria, bumping heads with politicians who wanted to punish the Nazi's while he was wanting to use the civilians to rebuild Bavaria. Set the German prisoners to chopping wood for the winter for example. Covers parts of his early life and career as a series of flash-backs. About half-way through the movie he has his accident, and you get to see what a talented actor George C. Scott really was, as he is confined to a hospital bed and can only express emotion using his face and his voice. Many of the actors from PATTON reprise their roles. Giving it only 2 stars because of the poor video quality -- it looks like a VHS tape someone made taping it off their home VCR. Grainy, jumps in scenes (like someone paused the recording during a commercial). Story and acting gets 4 Stars, Video Quality gets 2 Stars.
on May 27, 2017
Extremely interesting movie from a historical perspective - I knew General Patton had dies in car accident, but was surprised to see exactly how it actually happened. I somehow had a different scenario in my mind. The accident itself didn't look very bad at all and it is true that no one else in the car was seriously hurt - including the dog.
We have seen famous men throughout history who died shortly after they retired from greatness, as if their purpose in life had ended. I believe we choose our lives (in a spiritual sense) and I don't discount that when these mens' purposes had ended, that their souls chose to leave this life as well. Not "chose" in a literal sense, but,again, in a spiritual sense. Patton's purpose was to save the world from evil, which he did.
God Speed, General.
We have seen famous men throughout history who died shortly after they retired from greatness, as if their purpose in life had ended. I believe we choose our lives (in a spiritual sense) and I don't discount that when these mens' purposes had ended, that their souls chose to leave this life as well. Not "chose" in a literal sense, but,again, in a spiritual sense. Patton's purpose was to save the world from evil, which he did.
God Speed, General.
on June 22, 2016
I have read many books on Patton and his related death. Also movies such as Brass Target. Odlly enough played by GCS. But in Brass Target they deal with assassination of Patton. However I think it was just from his injuries and an eager President to get his best General back on American soil before he is ready to move. If you read Bill O'Riely's version of Killing Patton you will understand. I am glad GCS reprise his role in this movie. Maybe if we would have listened to Patton America would not have had to worry about the cold war. Just a thought.
on March 10, 2016
What makes this movie worth watching is seeing George C. Scott again playing the role of General Patten. His landmark portray of the
famous General in the movie, "Patton", remains a great acting achievement to all to watch.. While landmark status is not to be ascribe to
this movie, it is a delight in seeing Scott again for the last time.
The movie has gain more attention with the publication of a popular book that argues the general's death may have been intentional. However,
apart from the causes of his death, the movie brings up the issue of what happens to a person like General Patten ,who was an expert in
war and battle, and the war is stopped before he thinks it should.have been. An interesting issue is what would General Patten have done if he
had not died at the time , intentionally or not, and went home and retired. . Would the general had been happy being retired?
famous General in the movie, "Patton", remains a great acting achievement to all to watch.. While landmark status is not to be ascribe to
this movie, it is a delight in seeing Scott again for the last time.
The movie has gain more attention with the publication of a popular book that argues the general's death may have been intentional. However,
apart from the causes of his death, the movie brings up the issue of what happens to a person like General Patten ,who was an expert in
war and battle, and the war is stopped before he thinks it should.have been. An interesting issue is what would General Patten have done if he
had not died at the time , intentionally or not, and went home and retired. . Would the general had been happy being retired?
on October 7, 2015
I'd had 'Patton' in my queue to watch for quite a while and I finally watched it recently. I thought it was pretty good. Nothing I need to watch again, but decent. Shortly after I finished it I realized that there was a sequel to it - 'The Last Days of Patton'. Since the original was fresh in my head, I dropped this sequel into my watchlist and gave it a whirl. The first thing that jumped out at me was the awful video quality. Like....really really bad. Given that this is much less of an action film than the original, that wasn't a huge problem, but I would be pretty upset if I were someone that had bought this on DVD and expected it to look acceptable.
I thought the storyline, which as far as I can tell is trying to accurately portray what happened, was decent and reasonably interesting. It definitely felt more like a TV movie than something you'd see on the big screen. Overall it's worth a watch, but it was a little hard for me to get over the poor video quality.
3 start for the movie itself. 1 star for the video quality.
I thought the storyline, which as far as I can tell is trying to accurately portray what happened, was decent and reasonably interesting. It definitely felt more like a TV movie than something you'd see on the big screen. Overall it's worth a watch, but it was a little hard for me to get over the poor video quality.
3 start for the movie itself. 1 star for the video quality.
on December 17, 2016
I was interested in the events of his final days. Without generals like Patton, we probably would be speaking German or Japanese. I believe if you could ask him, he would say that lying in bed paralyzed from a car accident would be one of the last ways he would want to leave this earth. It's unfortunate for him to not have died in a great battle. That's the way he would have preferred to die. The movie was respectfully presented and captured his persona.
TOP 500 REVIEWERon October 22, 2009
I downloaded this movie from Amazon for my husband who is a big Patton fan. I figured this movie would brighten him. I watched the movie this morning.
The acting is superb, as is expected from the cast, and the first hour is full of suspense and build-up. We see the tension between Eisenhower and Patton, we see Patton's respect for the German prisoners, and we learn about Patton's distaste for the Russians. But did Eisenhower want to hear that? No, he instead "transferred" him to a "paper Army" (Patton's words) where we see his depression start to mount.
The accident happens in the second hour, but the last 90 minutes drag. The last 90 minutes we see Patton slowly fading in mind and body as he lays in his hospital bed. Gone are his wit and acuteness. All the viewer has now is the dialogue of the supporting actors, which is dull at best. The end finale then comes abruptly as he dies and the camera lights fade and zoom out from his bed. It's a sad story of a great war hero.
The acting is superb, as is expected from the cast, and the first hour is full of suspense and build-up. We see the tension between Eisenhower and Patton, we see Patton's respect for the German prisoners, and we learn about Patton's distaste for the Russians. But did Eisenhower want to hear that? No, he instead "transferred" him to a "paper Army" (Patton's words) where we see his depression start to mount.
The accident happens in the second hour, but the last 90 minutes drag. The last 90 minutes we see Patton slowly fading in mind and body as he lays in his hospital bed. Gone are his wit and acuteness. All the viewer has now is the dialogue of the supporting actors, which is dull at best. The end finale then comes abruptly as he dies and the camera lights fade and zoom out from his bed. It's a sad story of a great war hero.
on August 16, 2016
I guess you want to be a fair Patton fan.
This movie is well put together and gives a good view of what Patton was going thru as he pondered his future.
A professional soldier without a war.
A man who has tasted his personal goal of leading armys into battle and was now wondering if it would ever happen again.
I believe this movie shows he died at the best time in his life. He would have never made it in retirement.
Great movie.
This movie is well put together and gives a good view of what Patton was going thru as he pondered his future.
A professional soldier without a war.
A man who has tasted his personal goal of leading armys into battle and was now wondering if it would ever happen again.
I believe this movie shows he died at the best time in his life. He would have never made it in retirement.
Great movie.
on June 24, 2017
Produced by TGG Direct, LLC, 2009. 146 Minutes. This is a poor quality reproduction from the 1986 VHS movie. It states "Fully Restored and Enhanced Digital Master". I think not. Looks just like an old VHS and I played it on a Bluray up scaling DVD Player. Could have purchased the VHS for a couple of Bucks and gotten the same view.
