Irish merchant seaman Murphy (Peter O'Toole) is the sole survivor of a World War II German U-boat attack in tropical waters. Picked up by a French oil engineer, he is taken to a native village hospital. Upon recovering, he learns about a downed seaplane which he repairs and learns to fly. His plan: a personal vengeance on the submarine by destroying it with homemade Molotov cocktails. Murphy is drawn into a relentless struggle against the German boat; it is his private war.
Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at a forgotten mission station near the mouth of the Orinoco, and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat by means of any method imaginable to him, and sets about to make the courageous attempt, assisted by Louis, the administrator of the local oil company.
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Murphy's WarIs this the finest film ever made by the director or this actor, no. However, more than a simple message of "war is bad", this is a finely acted script of a man gone mad with rage. Rage at his losses and rage at what he knows he has been driven to become. I will not spoil the plot but if you are an observer of what pure hate is and the absolute insanity it can bring, this film is a must see. It caught it as a second feature as a youth, have seen it countless times on the tube and still enjoy it to this day. If are looking for an epic, see Lawrence of Arabia. This is a different film that shows a different side to insanity..Score: 4/5
DisappointingThis movie has made me doubt the vaunted "Rotten Tomatoes" rating system, because there is no way this is 100%. The first impression is that it was made with a low budget, because in the opening sequence they use the same aspect of a ship and the same sequence of action but shoot it 30 different ways for about 5 nauseating minutes of "I got the point". Moreover, I think the director and the screenwriter must've both missed film school the day they taught "Character Development" because, with the exception of a thin attempt to give Sian's character a hint of depth near the end of the movie, all the characters--including O'Toole--seem like superficial interlocutors whose only purpose is to carry the contrived plot of this predictable movie to its predictable end. Given the timeframe of when it was made (Vietnam) I get the whole "war is futile" message, but it doesn't play in this case (if my whole crew was murdered in cold blood, I'd probably act the same way). If thats the message you want, "Hell in the Pacific" is the best movie for that. As far as the acting, the doctor played by Sian was miscast, and O'Toole was bigger than this movie. I constantly got the impression that he was trying to make something out of nothing, attempting in vein to give complexity to a flatly written character. It wasn't the worst movie I ever saw, but I regret buying it. UPDATE: This Rotten Tomatoes review listed for Murphy's War is actually for the Fritz Lang movie "M" from the thirties--somehow, it got mistakenly linked to this movie. The true Rotten Tomatoes review for this movie is 0% (no lie) and to tell you the truth, it deserves it..Score: 2/5
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