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Inchon!

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Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Laurence Olivier) leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's (Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara) relationship.

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Gary Arnold Washington Post 07/22/2015
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. Go to Full Review
Vincent Canby New York Times 06/24/2015
Inchon is a hysterical historical epic, somewhat less offensive than The Green Berets and far funnier. Go to Full Review
Richard Schickel TIME Magazine 06/24/2015
Inchon is, as military spectacles go, one of the sorriest in movie history. Go to Full Review
Leah Rozen People Magazine 06/24/2015
Inchon is vapid and disjointed. Go to Full Review
Film4 Staff Film4 06/24/2015
No one seems to have a clue what they are doing. Go to Full Review
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Carson P 11/19/2024 This was a terrible way to conclude a major old Hollywood stars career Laurence Olivier in Inchon looks as if he lost all his acting talents after a long career of being a talented actor in the similar vain of John Wayne with the conquerer he gives a surprisingly embarrassing performance as genneral Douglas MacArthur he doesn’t act the way the general was in real life and often looks tired all time he doesn’t seem to know when to say his lines and the direction as script he was given didn’t help him either. His performance aside the films also poorly shot, the battle scenes are flat and downright exhausting to watch as if the director had already filmed too much action scenes excessively that they even become tired themselves. They also feel unrealistic and just there out of no sense or context there was no dramatic tension to them whatsoever, seeing how this it’s a zero rating explains how one may consider the worst film ever made it’s soo bad that it’s hard to tell if they even showed this on tv it was a big box office flop and is considered the worst war film of all time I managed to find and watch this on YouTube where I felt bored and wasting my time watching it, it’s all so convoluted and confusing that I had to stop it at several points. In the end it’s bad in so many ways that it’s hard for me to describe the awfulness of it all 0/10 avoid See more Parker D 09/12/2022 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 See more Eric P 10/05/2021 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. See more 07/23/2020 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) See more 12/27/2016 Hell will freeze over before the DVD of this movie comes out. See more 07/12/2014 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. See more Read all reviews
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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
Producer
Mitsuharu Ishii
Production Co
United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Rating
PG
Genre
History, Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
2h 20m