3/4  Works well in both parts.
Great escape works both as a procedural it terms of showing of the little details in the escape preparations then as a escape picture which it works equally well as. My only problem with it though is Steve McQueen goes a bit far with the m... (read full)

4/4  Great Escape-Great Movie
The Great Escape is one of those rare gems of a movie - that when you're channel surfing and happen upon it - you just stop and watch it. What is it that makes this movie so appealing, particularly to men? First, each character is extremel... (read full)

3/4  The Great Escape Quick Review
McQueen, the king of cool, is perfect for the role of the adventurer. The movie is a little too long for me, but is still a great watch if you have the patience. A classic movie that any war movie buff needs to see.

3.5/4  The Great Escape Quick Review
Enough suspense to keep you on the edge of your seat and enough action to keep to on your toes - The Great Escape, with an excellent cast, is a classic in every sense of the word.

5/5 A Great Classic Movie......
  by G. Durst (USA)
If you are a classic movie buff like me, this is a must have for your collection. Steve McQueen is great in this movie, along with a whole cast of Hollywood legends.

1/5 Worst War Movie
  by Prabal Guha Biswas (don't worry, I shall find you)
It is a macabre congregation of the lousiest actors' that have ever acted together in this witheringly boring tale of escape from a German Concentration Camp. I can't pin point who was the worst. McQueen, the little rat like creature ( may be was McQueen's jail wife), or the black haired intolerable American who tries to bribe a German Soldier with chocolates. The movie is very boring and absolutely unwatchable. Give it a miss and do yourself a favor..


Paul Lawrence -> Australian Garbage is not welcome. Dirty, regressive, racist society. I spit at you....thugggg.

Anyway Bollywood movies are a better watch than any farty Aussie movie. First, get to the standard of movies made in Mongolia and then talk to me. We had one-tit Kylie Minougue in one of our movie showing her undies ( containing her ever-dry crotch).

5/5 HIGHLY ENTERTAINING EVEN IF A LITTLE TOO LONG! 4 1/2 STARS!
  by ! MR. KNOW IT ALL ;-b (TRI STATE AREA)
It had been many years since I last saw this picture, I say picture because that is what we used to call them. 'The Great Escape' is a interesting film that has an excellent cast and is well paced for a film almost three hours long! Sure there are a few minor bumps in this prison war movie, but it is very engrossing.

It won't take long before you realize this is where they got the idea for 'Hogan's Heroes'. Any film with McQueen, Garner, Bronson and Coburn init has to be pretty good right? I have the older special edition which looks pretty good, but the extras are trailers and a 24 minute documentary. If you're a fan of this film it's probably worth the upgrade to the new 2 discs edition.

3/5 Good, but The Book is Better!
  by Anthony Heideman (Centennial, CO)
This is one of my all-time favoties movies, but if you have not read the book by Paul Brickhill, you need to. The real story is absolutely amazing and cannnot compare.

4/5 A Tribute To Never Giving Up
  by D. Mikels (Skunk Holler)
"It is the duty of a British officer to escape, and to help his fellow prisoners escape." This defiant line sets the stage for one of cinema's best classics, the always-entertaining THE GREAT ESCAPE. Based (ever so loosely) on a true story about an en masse prison break from the German maximum security POW prison Stalag Luft North, this film should not be encountered while channel surfing; inevitably, some three hours later (and no telling how late the ungodly hour), you'll find yourself still watching this tribute to the indomitable human spirit.

What makes this movie work so well is its exceptional ensemble cast. James Garner. Charles Bronson. Richard Attenborough. Donald Pleasance. James Coburn (with a bogus Aussie accent). David McCallum. And a guy by the name of Steve McQueen; his role as an American loner obsessed with "tunneling out" skyrocketed him to superstar status. At three hours some patience is required as the story--the plot to dig not one, but three, escape tunnels out of the stalag--picks up suspense and pace, but once the breakout is staged get ready for some white-knuckling viewing. Four stars instead of five because the predictable Sixties melodrama that occasionally creeps in really irks me. Yet THE GREAT ESCAPE is still enthusiastically recommended.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning