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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
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
09/12/22
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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.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
02/18/23
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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.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/31/23
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Hell will freeze over before the DVD of this movie comes out.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/27/23
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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.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/16/23
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Tedious and uninvolving, Young's tale of a key part of the Korean war is nothing short of slapdash. Nothing really fires. The all star cast are dull, the production values are cheap and tacky, and even the score by Jerry Goldsmith is more phoned in and lackluster than anything. And as for plot, 'Inchon' tries to balance a number of threads on top of the main invasion, and it just falls apart.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/01/23
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