RyothChatty ridiculous rating

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

mark.waltz As exciting as a marathon of news reels, this is a weak mixture of action, romance and anti-war sentiment during the Vietnam war, too cheaply done to get a theatrical release, and no evidence of a T.V. premiere in prime time. The plot is supposed to be about the efforts of American troops to get the last of the Nazi's out of Italy, yet more time is spent on the interactions of soldiers and Italian women, a boring romantic plot involving a commanding officer and a female reporter anxious to report from the front and repetitive stock footage of tanks and bombings. A long introductory sequence makes you think that this is so much more, but it ends up being so little. Former B movie leads John Agar and Richard Webb were obviously hard up for work. This ends up being a waste of time stinker with poor editing, horrid sound (often sounding tinny and warped) and an un-cohesive structure. The only scene worth remembering is the plight of a young soldier at the very beginning writing a letter to his father and having a heart to heart with an older soldier who seems touched over being compared to his dad. Other than that, it is a repetitive repeat over similar situations over and over. If only the hell raiders had raided the studio vault and destroyed this print.

Homer900 Wow. Found it on Movieplex Echoes of War. Let's see. First the two officers, Agar and Webb, are way too old. The Uniforms seem to be a hodgepodge of Vietnam-era and WWII/Korean War-era clothing. The Germans at first seem to be carrying Gewehr 41(W)semi-auto loaders, but then the German soldier who is watching the "squad" take 10 and shoots the stereotypical young and scared soldier is using what appears to be an early wood-stocked model of the FN91, a post war rifle.Constant battle sounds that are looped, the American weapons, when they fired, (M1s, M1-carbines, .45 pistols, etc) only fire one round, though semi-automatic. This was due to the film makers evidently not using blank adapters in their weapons. When they show the Americans firing, each fires a round, and then the action cuts to the Germans. As we watch the Germans, we hear intense American firing.When a German soldier is firing at the squad with an American .30 caliber machinegun, they move to a close up of him as he shakes the weapon and you hear the firing. Funny, he continued to shake as the firing stops then starts again.I could go on, but after about 30 minutes, I had had enough. I can't believe I wasted so many electrons watching this horrid excuse of a movie.

georgegauthier This is a truly terrible movie. Because of the cast, I gave it a try but gave up after ten minutes. The principal cast including John Agar and Richard Webb were much too old for their roles, 47 and 53 respectively. The lengthy opening documentary about the course of the war was pointless and inaccurate. What did the war of the bombers flying from England have to do with EOD (explosives experts) fighting in Italy? EOD are often brave soldiers but who would ever call them Hell Raiders?I would have ended there, but IMDb wants ten lines. OK, I reiterate: This is a truly terrible movie. Because of the cast, I gave it a try but gave up after ten minutes. The principal cast including John Agar and Richard Webb were much too old for their roles, 47 and 53 respectively. The lengthy opening documentary about the course of the war was pointless and inaccurate. What did the war of the bombers flying from England have to do with EOD (explosives experts) fighting in Italy? EOD are often brave soldiers but who would ever call them Hell Raiders?

John Seal One of a series of AIP features remade for television by the legendary Larry Buchanan, Hell Raiders tells the story of a select group of GIs sent on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines in exchange for three months wages and some extra leave. John Agar stars as Major Paxton, who leads his men into battle and through an overwhelming barrage of stock footage. Likewise, the score seems to consist of cues recycled from westerns and sci fi films. Based on 1959's Suicide Battalion, Hell Raiders commits the unpardonable sin of being incredibly boring and spends far too much time on boring romantic subplots. It's even worse than Buchanan's Creature of Destruction, which is quite an accomplishment.