this be an extremely lack ww ii movie . the story be tell poorly and most of the time be just mainly confuse . the movie also lack in tension and the main character in the story be handle in a boring and bad way . the cast of this movie be truly impressive . george kennedy and john cassavetes and sophia loren and robert vaughn and max von sydow and patrick mcgoohan and bruce davison . all be great actor but the material they have be give to work with in this movie be just plain awful . none of the actor really get the opportunity to shine and due to the very poor directing and some weak and ridicule dialog . all of the character in the movie be just totally uninteresting to follow . sophia loren character be just pointless and work only distract and cause the movie it pace to be even more lacking in speed . george kennedy also really wasn not convincing a gen. george s. patton jr. robert vaughn play a villainous american colonel and who also happen to be a very active homosexual in the movie . this just feel totally pointless and be not need at all for the story . basically the only really interesting and good character be the hit man play by the always dependable max von sydow . cheer for the bad guy in a movie like this one and that never a good sign . it be also sort of fun to see a young bruce davison and before he receive real fame in the late 90 /00 . the story itself really isn not that bad and be good enough to make this movie just as good and entertaining a movie like where eagle dare and the gun of navarone and the eagle have land . however the story be tell extremely muddle in the movie and which make it hard to understand at time what be the main plot line of the movie . at first you think that the movie be about get the stolen german gold stock back . however a the movie progress it become obvious that the movie be about an assassination on general patton instead and the movie turn into a whole different movie entirely and almost more in the same style a the day of the jackal and which be make 5 year earlier . needless to say that not all of the element that happen in the story feel connect to each other . the movie be also truly lack in tension . the movie be slow paced and could have really use some action sequence . instead and the movie be a slow and bore one to watch . also because the story be so confusing and distorted and you never really connect to anything that happen in the movie . the character feel really distant and the event in the movie be far from interest or excite and the movie also totally lack in style and atmosphere . so why should you watch this movie in the first place . i can think of no reason . it by no mean be one of the bad movie ever make but it also most certainly isn not the best in it genre . it a very poorly make movie and with weak directing and storytelling that feel like an huge waste of a great cast and a story that have quite some potential and deserve a well treatment . it already an almost totally forgotten movie and it should better just stay that way as well . 4/10 .