Two movies with the great Donald Sutherland: Klute and The Eagle Has Landed.
Now on the first, there is little to say, it's a near-perfect thriller with intense drama and surprisingly deep characters. As the say: movies like that are no longer made today.
On the Eagle: Well, during watching it, I felt, that it was disjointed, boring, uninspired and most of all had aged pretty badly. The characters are somewhat stock (especially the Nazi's) and if it weren't for the extraordinary cast, this would have been a near unwatchable war flick, far closer to the Green Berets than to the Dirty Dozen. And while I still think that it has aged pretty badly; from the day-for-night shots to the laughable matte painting at the end, after it was over I thought, that it wasn't so bad.
Not in any way near the Bridge on the River Kwai, which kept me on the edge through the whole finale and still took its time for deep and faceted characters, but 'possibly good' in the 70's.
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