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Sorry but not that great.

posted 15 years ago by artistathome
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I am confused as to why all of you think this is so great. I really could not watch Sergeant's 3.

Talk about the RAT PACK phoning it in. These guys are just going thru the motions. i am not sure what they problem is. Maybe they were tired of acting like idiots.

On the other hand, Ocean's Eleven is a masterpiece and I like it better than the Clooney remake.
But Sergeants 3 is just terrible. I tried to watch these 45-50 year old men acting like 25 year old frat guys. Ridiculous.

The mystique was only there in Ocean's Eleven and when they appeared in Las Vegas. Seeing those guys together now brings back such memories of JFK, Dick Van Dyke Show and Andy Griffith among other naive and innocent offerings.

I was a young teen when all this was going on. and I admit they were pretty popular then because of the President.

But seeing it now, I don't have the same reaction.

[–] zopop119 15 years ago

i too love the rat pack...

but this just stinks!! It was a totally wrong genre for them to be involved in and whomever put this together for them was a dolt.

[–] kenneth-r-close-1 14 years ago

The production quality of this movie is excellent, at times it reminded me of a John Ford western. But this has got to be the worst script ever written! You can have great direction, beautiful photography and all the stars in Hollywood, but if the script isn't good you'll always produce a bomb.

[–] ksf-2 13 years ago

yawn.... and almost 2 hours of it. could have been Great with all those bigshots in it...

[–] bcamphome 8 years ago

As much as I like the Rat Pack, they weren't the most athletic stars, yet they do all this action in the movie as if they were much younger and stronger. In one scene they seem to singlehandedly take on Henry Silva and all his Indians on the warpath, easily knocking them out and overpowering them as if it was nothing. I understand they were emulating Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Victor McLaglen from the original GUNGA DIN, but it just didn't work. It just got ridiculous, esp. with Dean and the fireworks--which somehow had a lethal power that fireworks just don't have.