- Actors: Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow, Ian Holm
- Directors: Dick Richards
- Writers: Dick Richards, David Zelag Goodman
- Producers: Dick Richards, Georges-Patrick Salvy-Guide, Jerry Bruckheimer, Patrick Guide
- Language English
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Carlton
- VHS Release Date: 10 April 2000
- Run Time: 107 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004S8FV
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 26,144 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
March or Die was one of a number of massive box-office disasters that nearly brought Columbia to its knees until CE3K rescued it from the brink. On the surface it belongs alongside the trilogy of mid-70s adventure films that Sean Connery made for the studio, with Gene Hackman's embittered Foreign Legionnaire reluctantly leading his surviving men to protect Max Von Sydow's archaeological dig. It's a perfectly workable premise for an adventure but it never really works. It's a schizophrenic film at best, and not just because of the usual international co-production vagaries: Gene Hackman is starring in a bleak, revisionist drama while Terence Hill is starring in an old-fashioned swashbuckler, and despite John Alcott's strikingly subdued photography neither strand quite works - not enough panache or too much depending on whose turn it is in the spotlight. The final (and only) battle scene is a particularly odd affair, with Hackman's character behaving very oddly indeed, depriving the audience of the expected climax in a way that seems more bizarre and just plain wrong than innovative.
Heavy pre-release cutting probably didn't help (the original US TV broadcast included a number of deleted sequences, including an additional battle scene), but this is more an interesting failure than a successful reinvention of a subgenre it all but killed off for good. It certainly managed to kill of director Dick Richards' career.
The fullframe DVD is a decent transfer with no loss of picture area (although the Australian DVD is in widescreen), but there are no extras: a shame, as it would have been interesting to see the deleted scenes, and the film's trailer was very good.
Heavy pre-release cutting probably didn't help (the original US TV broadcast included a number of deleted sequences, including an additional battle scene), but this is more an interesting failure than a successful reinvention of a subgenre it all but killed off for good. It certainly managed to kill of director Dick Richards' career.
The fullframe DVD is a decent transfer with no loss of picture area (although the Australian DVD is in widescreen), but there are no extras: a shame, as it would have been interesting to see the deleted scenes, and the film's trailer was very good.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is very good, it is a story of the French Foreign Legion who have to go to an archaeological expedition. The acting is brilliant, Hackman shines, as he does in everything, Terence Hill shows off his acrobatics, and Deneuve lends much needed humanity to the film. It is a very overlooked film and one that I would recommend. The dvd has no extras though, but is worth getting as the DVD has been hard to find in the past.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
terence hill ,is at his peak in this movie,with gene hackman at his hills.this movie has it all a moviebuff will enjoy
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