MartinHafer
"The Best of Enemies" is a comical farce set during WWII and concerns fighting between the Italians and Brits in North Africa. Instead of being a film about large armed forces, it's about a bunch of misfits on all sides and primarily is about two annoyingly stubborn officers. The reviews for "The Best of Enemies" are so good that I decided to force myself to see the entire film and I resisted the impulse to turn it off and cut my losses. After all, a lot of people really liked it and I wanted to see why. And, for the life of me, I still have no idea why the other reviews are so positive. While this isn't a terrible film, it just never felt very satisfying and I kept hoping it would get better. Overall, I didn't find it very funny nor did I particularly enjoy it--and I think the kooky musical score only made this worse.
Pichicho
This is a great movie. Last time I saw it was in the late 60s of the last century in local LA TV station and the first time was at a film festival in Peru in the early 60s as I was still living there. I still remember the acting from Sordi contrasted with that of Niven. The former bombastic and mercurial and the latter always calm and cool. The setting in the North African? wilderness-desert during WW II shows these enemies irritating each other with military moves until they are drawn together when they realize they might fall victim to the natives. I have been looking for this movie in VHS earlier and now on DVD. Has it been lost?
tonyomega-1
This is one of my favorite movies. I've only seen it twice because it has been unavailable on tape, cd or dvd. I'm hoping that it is released for the public soon. I've been trying to get a copy for years.It pokes a little fun at the ineptitudes of the combatants, but it also shows that they were at war. It has an ending that enjoy very much.For those who haven't seen this movie, try it if you can get a copy, you'll get an hour and a half of excellent entertainment.
gstevens-2
I saw this movie on TV years ago. Sadly I haven't seen it for at least five years, not even on cable. The story deals with the interplay between Italian and British units, mostly focusing on the commanding officers on each side. Sordi and Niven couldn't have been better in their roles. Against the backdrop of the African WW2 campaign the two sides seem to be more of a nuisance to each other than effective participants in the war, but towards the end of the movie we are given a reminder of the tendency to become egotistic as being a major world power involved in a campaign which totally ignores the native population in the country being fought over.This is a very appropriate touch to the movie. The two sides(Brits & Italians) were not the only game in town. I would love to see this movie out on video or DVD and would purchase it immediately.
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