Patton is a very rich and engrossing biological film about General Patton. It is more of a character study of the man than a film about WW2 and George C Scott delivers an incredible performance that won him an Oscar. The film holds up well through the years and looks and sounds amazing. The script was very edgy and original at the time and elevated the status of up and coming film maker Francis Ford Coppola, who also received an Oscar for his work on the screenplay. While the approach to the subject matter was fresh and original, it has much in common with much of the other WW2 films that came before it. What is most interesting is the complicated layers to General Patton as a man and George C Scott delivered an amazing performance. Overall, the film Patton is very classy and very well made production that was both commercially and critically successful. A classic film that deserves the acclaim it has received.

Movie Review: "Patton" (1970)A multi-million U.S. Dollar picture distributed by 20th Century Fox to Best Picture winning splendors, starring George C. Scott (1927-1999) in role of a life-time as "World-War-II" (WW2) Allied-General George S. Patton (1885-1945) of the U.S. Army invading to liberate North Africa from Nationalsocialist-occupations before charging on through South-European countries of defensive, window-closing means heading straight to Berlin to shot Führer Adolf Hitler himself, when Academy-Award-winning director Franklin J. Schaffner (1920-1989) had been putting brackets on to balance his biopic-exceeding leading man by achieving an accuracy in technical visualizations of massive extreme wide-shots of panoramic landscape rolling tanks to avoid any further "Thin Red Line" traps of becoming a caricature of an hero-villain nemesis embodiment filtered by an real-life personalty, who actually died from ending a war. Screen-story written by Francis Ford Coppola with Edmund H. North (1911-1990), utilizing first-hand combat materials of opposing U.S. Army General and closest friend to Goerge S. Patton by campaigning within Allied forces in early 1940s, namely Omar N. Bradley (1893-1981), portrayed by code of honor-pleading when war-battling ruthlessness is needed secretive Hollywood legend Karl Malden (1912-2009) to extents of Patton's picture-enthrilled exposures to be only born for one purpose and one purpose only to do battle despite a witnessing audience so desperately in need of another happy ending with minds on the infamous "Vietnam War" apart, after 170 Minutes of classic Hollywood movie-making, which gets controversially-granted with a sacrifice. The pacing and forward-pushing story-line entirely-carried by naturally an Academy-Award-winning actor George C. Scott, who so widely-regarded as deeply-researched on-screen character merged with an WW2-historic figure that actor George C. Scott needed to decline his award to be restored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to this very day, out of respect to his fellow leading role competitors.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Coming from the height of the Vietnam War, this very optimistic- spirited light-feeling war movie comes to feel somewhat out of place. At the time it came out, it might have been seen as a welcome retread to the gung-ho jingoistic war movies of the 50's and 60's with squeaky-clean heroism from the G.I.'s and sneering incompetence from the Germans. Also, the depictions of the battles in this movie, while often spectacular, feel pretty inaccurate and simplified for anyone who bothered to read a little more than the 9th-grade general-ed history books. It's almost as though the film just isn't interested so much in the war. The war is just a backdrop for the showcase of this complicated man.It's of another time, an era from before when history got complicated and we started really re-evaluating things... who the heroes of the war were and what really makes a man a 'hero'. How interesting is it to show people who never waver in confidence in the face of battle and never seem to fail? How responsible was Patton for the collapse of the 3rd Reich compared to the vast scale of the warfare waged by the Russians on the Eastern Front, not to mention the many who served above and below him? Was he just a cog in the machine or a truly extraordinary individual? This movie tells us the latter, but doesn't really tell us why or how beyond just all the other officers around him behaving like comparative imbeciles.That said, the film is wonderfully acted. George C. Scott was the perfect choice for the role and as long as the film focuses on him and his complicated relationship with the media, his fellow generals and allies, it works well. It just feels awfully dumbed-down to me in its depiction of the actual battles. PATTON may be a step up from THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE in terms of how well it technically pulls everything off, but just about on-par with it in terms of giving history credit where credit is due.

This 20th Century Fox production, should have won the Academy Award for Best Picture of the year, which it did for 1970, among other awards, such as Best Actor, which Scott earned. One was able to sense well what the real Patton, "Old Blood and Guts" was really like. Patton was a man who himself stated that he read the Bible every day as he told a priest; (of course, the strong expletive he used as his adjective for the word "day" is not fit, I believe, to be placed in this review.) He didn't mind spitting out dirty words at the beginning when he was talking to his men, a man who loved war so much that generals under him began to hate him, a fact depicted in the movie. One memorable scene was the one in which he slapped hard the head of the boy too scared to fight. (Tim Considine, famed for playing Spin on the serial "Spin and Marty" on, in turn, the "Mickey Mouse Club" of the middle '50's played the part of the scared soldier.) I wonder if George S. Patton was any meaner than George C. Scott. After all, in many of his movies Scott is so mean himself. Karl Malden played one of his best roles ever in his career as General Omar Bradley. The main setting in North Africa was drawing in its own right. Yes, the movie depicted so clearly Patton and his war situation well. An outstanding production.