Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Leofwine_draca MURPHY'S WAR is a WW2 thriller shot in Venezuela to give it an exotic look. The unusual storyline is the best thing about it and similar to Wilbur Smith's SHOUT AT THE DEVIL in the tale of an Allied soldier obsessed with getting revenge on the submarine captain who massacred his men after their ship was torpedoed. Peter O'Toole headlines the cast and dominates with his portrayal of the cocky, carefree Irishman; as usual his superior acting is one of the best things about the film.The direction comes courtesy of Peter Yates, the man behind BULLITT, and like that film this is a very visual experience. There aren't many ingredients and there's rather a languid pacing but MURPHY'S LAW holds your attention regardless. The locations are fantastic and the special effects solid for their era. There's not much action but that which does occur is hard-hitting. The cast can also be relied upon to give strong performances; because there are so few characters in this, they have to work harder and they're up to the job.Philippe Noiret (re-teaming with O'Toole after NIGHT OF THE GENERALS) is the likable French ally while Sian Phillips adds plenty of character as the British nurse. Most surprising of all is Horst Janson, Hammer's star from CAPTAIN KRONOS, playing the villain of the piece. He's understated and eminently hateable, a polar opposite from his starring role in the Hammer film. MURPHY'S LAW builds to a fantastically tense climax which is the best part of the film and indeed the last twenty minutes are cinematic excellence.

tieman64 Set toward the tail-end of World War Two, "Murphy's War" stars Peter O'Toole as Murphy, an Irish sailor whose ship is sunk by a German U-boat. Seeking revenge, Murphy creates makeshift bombs, straps them to a plane and embarks on a quest to sink Germans. The film was directed by Peter Yates, an English director best known for 1968's "Bullit" and 1970's "The Friends of Eddie Coyle".Like Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", "Murphy's War" is about a monomaniacal sailor's obsessive hunt. The film then ends with some then trendy anti-war pretensions, Murphy's madness extending into post-war peacetime such that he, like Meville's Captain Ahab, loses his own life in slaying the beast. Though a thin, conventional and at times dated film, "Murphy's War" boasts another dazzling performance by O'Toole.7/10- See "Decision before Dawn" and "The African Queen".

Neil Welch I can't make up my mind how I feel about Murphy's War. It is a simple story - Murphy is the sole survivor of a German U-Boat attack where the Germans make a point of making sure there are no survivors. Ending up on the remote Brazilian coast while the U-Boat undertakes repairs up-river, Murphy decides to refurbish a derelict seaplane in order to bomb and sink the U-Boat. His plans continue even after hostilities cease.Peter O'Toole plays the obsessed Murphy in another definitive performance 9 years after his career-establishing Lawrence. His support, all excellent, comprise then-wife Sian Phillips as a doctor servicing the local tribe, Philippe Noiret as a stranded engineer, and Horst Janson as the U-Boat commander. But this is O'Toole's film.There is an odd conflict here between, on the one hand, the gorgeous scenery and exhilarating flying sequences and, on the other hand, the underlying story and the unattractiveness of Murphy's character and obsession. It is a worthwhile film but I was far from sure whether I had actually enjoyed it.

William Dais Murphy's War is one of my top 50 most loved films, and I've watched A LOT of films, in all genres. When a film with a straightforward narrative, and a relatively simple plot with very few characters can rivet you to your seat right until the end, you have a hell of a story on your hands! The wide 2.35:1 format and outstanding cinematography by Oscar winner Douglas Slocombe are ideally matched to the location and type of action. And the reviewer who thinks the role of Murphy isn't suited for Peter O'Toole should have his head examined! O'Toole IS Murphy as much as he IS Lawrence of Arabia. Murphy's progression deeper and deeper into a vengeance-clouded mania is masterfully accomplished; he's in good company here, along with Gregory Peck's Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, Spencer Tracy's Old Man in The Old Man and the Sea, and Robert Shaw's Captain Quint in Jaws, O'Toole's tenacious Irishman Murphy is an inspiration easily absorbed and applied to all situations in which one may be considered the underdog by a wide margin. In other words, Murphy isn't an ironic post modern anti-hero. He's the old fashioned everyman, overcoming incredible odds to achieve his ends kind of hero. One could critique the film from sociological or psychological perspectives, and question whether the screenwriter intended for Murphy to symbolize the evil war can bring out in man, or the greatness, or both. But without reading anything into it, Murphy's War is on a primary level simply a terrific action yarn, well worth owning on DVD.