Review by jromanbaker

From the director who made one of the finest of Italian films, ' Fists in the Pocket ' I found this mid-1970's film uninvolving. It starts with a long sequence of a young soldier being bullied to the state of exhaustion, and the same soldier continues getting bullied. As a condemnation of the military it is arguably well observed, and it is always good to see Franco Nero performing well as one of the army leaders. His growling, handsome face is always good to watch and he is the stand out performance in this ( for me ) rather uninvolving film of repeated macho bad behaviour. Women too in this film are equally abused so it is not only one sided. One particular heterosexual sex scene I found unpleasant, and sometimes I sensed a repressed homosexuality but so vague as to be negligible. No spoilers to the ending, but I had by that time become rather bored with the collective and in the main bullying straight men enjoying their power.