Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I enjoyed the movie very much, but then Peter O'Toole is a grate Actor and his films are usually worth watching. The one irritating thing was not with the movie but with the plot description on this site. The plot states that "he was the sole survivor of his crew, that has been decimated" this is impossible the word decimated means to reduce by one tenth so you could never have just one survivor. The writer could have used Destroyed, wiped out, all killed or slaughtered; any of these would have made more sense. If one is going to put things up on an international site you should make sure that you know what words mean before you use them. There were also some spellings mistakes in the plot even web browsers have spelling checkers these days so there is no excuse

As newspaper freebies go this isn't bad but over and above any entertainment value is the fascination with the rip-off and crude attempts at movie subtlety; they producers seem to think that by changing the war from the 1st to the second, changing the Continent from Africa to South America and changing a cockney to an Irishman and a missionary to a doctor no one is going to spot that we're talking African Queen here with a soupcon of Moby Dick for good measure. There are, of course, other minor differences; in The African Queen it is the missionary Katie Hepburn who wants to destroy the German ship and has to convince Bogie's Charlie Allnut to go along with it whilst here it is Murphy (Peter O'Toole) as single minded as Ahab in his quest for the White whale, who is obsessed with destroying the German ship and Sian Phillips doctor who is against it from the first. Another modification is to meld the Missionary of The African Queen into Sian Phillip's doctor and Philippe Noiret's general factotum and to throw us off the scent by having O'Toole initially attempt to bomb the submarine from a seaplane he has found, rebuilt and learned to fly. Only when this fails does he resort to ramming it a la African Queen style. For all that it's a gripping enough tale in the best tradition of Boy's Own Paper and both O'Toole and Noiret turn in fine performances. I haven't read the novel by Max Catto, a third-rate writer who successfully sold several of his novels to Hollywood - Fire Down Below, Trapeze, The Devil At Four O'Clock etc and it may well have been him who ripped off C.S. Forrester's superior work but that aside this remains a decent enough divertissement.

In scanning through these reviews, I'm very pleased to see that this movie is well liked by many people.I saw it first around the time it came out and even though I was only eleven or twelve, many things about this movie left an impression on me: the sunny, tropical locations, the excellent cast and the impeccable performances.The very last scene where Murphy is literally consumed by his own revenge is at least as memorable and disturbing as the last scene in The Planet of the Apes (60's version) and drives home the whole point of the movie as perfectly as I've ever seen it done.See it! You won't be disappointed.

Crusty Irish Seaman (ooooh that just sounds wrong!) Peter O'Toole swears vengeance upon the nasty German U-boat that sank his ship. Not only that, but the heartless Huns machine-gunned O'Toole and the rest of the survivors as they bobbed helplessly in the ocean. So, like the deranged captain Ahab in Moby Dick, he devotes his considerable energies to tracking down that submarine and sinking it.I saw this on TV back in the early eighties. Now, as an adult I see the resemblance to Moby Dick and I enjoy this movie even more. Anyone who likes Peter O'Toole should see Murphy's War. The location shooting is beautiful. The flying sequences are breathtaking. And the downbeat anti-war ending is awesome.