this film tackle a very serious subject of the sudden and violent post war ( dec 45 ) death of general george patton . the film build up to the denouement of show this death to be an assassination and something i have think be a distinct probability give the enemy he make during and post the allied victory over germany . the story line of the motivation behind the assassination be build up around the theft a huge quantity of the gold that the national socialist government have accumulate that go miss in action so to speak . the film show a train hi jack of the gold and though not sure if that happen and but huge quantity of gold do disappear post war germany and be never find . whether this be really the route ( and the root ) of the motivation behind the event which lead to his sudden death be debatable but i be very intrigued a to whether or not the death of patton a show here be a reasonable accurate re creation of that death and something which sadly appear not to worry too many of the previous reviewer . the build up to the set up so that his vehicle come round a bend and hit a parked lorry seem to be well do and just how you would expect an accident to be pre arrange . kennedy portrayal of patton aggressive anti soviet and anti communism and with the post war red army command behaviour have no difficulty come right down to meet the low expectation patton have of them seem well do . patton have many enemy in the u . one of the thing that he do to infuriate those who want to use the allied victory to unleash a vindictive payback over and against the defeated enemy be to release the post war pow under his jurisdiction and the only set of post war pow to be set free during that time to go back home instead of suffer and die of starvation and disease in unsheltered open field surround by barbed wire and shot at by guard a be the fate of others german solder in these post war death camp . these german be to be make to pay time and again for their collective sin and with a usurious rate of interest and so that punishment and retribution be to be their fate . patton wasn not interested in such policy once the victory have be win but his internal enemy be . he be recall to the u and be due to go home imminently and have already be strip of his executive power but patton enemy could well have think that they need to get their pay back time in quickly before he do get back to the u and start to interfere with their plan against post war germany because of his high status in the u despite their incessant campaign to undermine his credibility . so an uneven film methinks with some good part and some bad but the slice of good part give food for thought about the great man demise .