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      Inchon!

      PG 1981 2h 20m History Drama List
      0% 8 Reviews Tomatometer 7% 250+ Ratings Audience Score Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Laurence Olivier) leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's (Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara) relationship. Read More Read Less

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      Parker D This is a movie that isn't talked about much but when I see reports it was universally panned and is still today considered an absolute turkey it doesn't even help the fact that Laurence Olivier is in this as he has had a distinguished career in the past before this and has won many academy awards but here he isn't competent with doing that here by portraying another real life person who is Douglas MacArthur and as far as I'm concerned this is the worst depiction of the great general I have ever seen the way he speaks is like he just had a temper and is trying to recover from it and outside of Olivier sleepwalking in the role he also doesn't use his skills it's like unlike how previously did good with the source material for playing othello, hamlet, Richard 3 and heathcliff and king Henry he doesn't do the right thing with trying to play MacArthur the result is a wasted potential and director of the movie who is Terrence young the director of the original James Bond films and other old action classics doesn't seem to try with his skills as a director either I am not sure what they were going for but all I know is that this was a cash grab and it squandered any chance of getting another Oscar glory as this film looks like it had the potential to it fails on every level and the battle scenes have cool weapons it is still all mishandled and the cinematography is bland and the look of the film is all blurry and badly lighted it looked like a made for tv film overall just a messy bizzare train wreck of a film without any engaging or convincing acting or writing whatsoever it's a mess 1/10 Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/12/22 Full Review Audience Member As much as I love learning about the Korean War and Douglas MacArthur, this film sadly was garbage. Inchon is filled with historical inaccuracies. People who know their history knows that Douglas MacArthur had a huge ego who clashed with anyone who dared criticized him and his philosophy. Yes, he was a great military commander but I just don't like the way this film portrayed him. Also, he recites the Lord's Prayer at the end of the movie? The real Douglas MacArthur would never do that. The editing is also beyond awful. Might be the worst editing job I've ever seen. Don't even get me started on the visuals in this movie. The visuals in Inchon make the average B-movie look like an Oscar winner. The music composed by Jerry Goldsmith is the only highlight in the film. Very disappointed in Terence Young (director of Dr. No ), Sir Laurence Olivier, and Toshiro Mifune for being apart of this movie. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member You know a movie is gonna be bad when it warns that the events depicted in this fictional movie are fictional, but that's the least of the problems with the over-budget, over-directed, and overly long wet blanket war epic Inchon. The movie takes place during the Communist overthrow in Korea and the Battle of Inchon in 1950. It also throws in stories involving Barbara (Jacqueline Bassett) driving through South Korea with orphan children to meet her ex-husband Lt. Hallsworth (Ben Gazzara) and Douglas MacArthur (Laurence Olivier) setting up plans for battle and raiding a lighthouse to signal the battleships. I guess Terence Young was trying to channel David Lean with a giant cast of extras in grand sets and landscapes, but in Inchon, the story and subplots connect so little it feels more like a pilot for a 1950's TV show than a movie. However, the cornball melodrama, overabundance on pyrotechnic effects, and horrendous writing makes it more on par with the material for B-movies. More problems: the Korean invasion scenes tie very little to what's going on in the story, the battle sequences seem randomly scattered for no coherent reason, every extra overacts when blown up, and the love story is meaningless. Worst of all, when MacArthur showed up thirty minutes in, the movie seemed to jump ship on one story and steer focus to another, almost as if the screenwriter forgot who the main characters were and wanted to mimic Patton. Well to my knowledge, Laurence Olivier is no George C. Scott and Robin Moore and Laird Koenig are no Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, either. To compare Inchon to Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor would be an extraordinary insult, as Mr. Bay has more respect for explosions and knows how to keep his schlocky storylines consistently. Inchon, on the other hand, is a complete messy disaster from start to finish. (1 Corn Cob Pipe out of 5) Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Ironic, but a documentary about the behind the scenes of this pile of film, would be more interesting than 1981's Inchon! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Hell will freeze over before the DVD of this movie comes out. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Well,its horryfying stupid. The characters are boring,the plot is absurd,the dialogs are corny and.it´s poorly acted,it´spoorly directed and it´s poorly writed.Inchon is Boring and Stupid. It´s Worse than The Last Airbender. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Critics Reviews

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      Gary Arnold Washington Post The most obvious and abiding defect displayed by Inchon is a ramshackle form of story construction in which the desire to fit The Little Picture inside The Big Picture achieves only wholesale trivialization. Jul 22, 2015 Full Review Vincent Canby New York Times Inchon is a hysterical historical epic, somewhat less offensive than The Green Berets and far funnier. Jun 24, 2015 Full Review Richard Schickel TIME Magazine Inchon is, as military spectacles go, one of the sorriest in movie history. Jun 24, 2015 Full Review Leah Rozen People Magazine Inchon is vapid and disjointed. Jun 24, 2015 Full Review Film4 Staff Film4 No one seems to have a clue what they are doing. Jun 24, 2015 Full Review TV Guide One of the worst films of all time. Jun 24, 2015 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Laurence Olivier) leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's (Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara) relationship.
      Director
      Terence Young
      Production Co
      Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      History, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      2h 20m