Five Days in Sinai (1968) Poster

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3/10
Italian-made Israeli war flick turns out to be terminally dull
Leofwine_draca4 March 2015
I guess the Italian makers of this film were bored of all the WW2-themed war movies filling cinemas at the time, as for a change they decided to make a movie based on the Six Day War between Egypt and Israel instead. Not that it makes a jot of difference, because it turns out to have EXACTLY the same plot as most other Italian war movies I've seen: a crack team of soldiers are sent on a dangerous mission and end up getting stranded in the desert, where they are forced to fight off numerous attacks by the enemy.

THE BATTLE FOR SINAI is hardly a film to get excited about, with the kind of bad dubbing and middling acting skills that you'd expect from an Italian genre flick. Even worse, there's a glut of dull dialogue scenes here, interspersed with a handful of sub-par action sequences that fail to get the pulse racing. The novelty of having the action take place from an Israeli perspective does nothing to contribute towards making this a watchable movie.
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1/10
Takes 'exploitation war films' to a new low
rayxt9 July 2017
Warning: Spoilers
There must have been some positive sentiment evident when the film's makers conceived this project. But like so many international co- productions it was probably mostly moving money out of the participant's countries. Because it's so bad it's an insult to everybody who died in that war.

Watching it in Hebrew (and understanding nothing) would be better for English speakers than the gruesome dubbed dialogue they're served up with.

As for 'action' it is acutely restrained, if that's the right word, by a near-zero budget for ordnance - to the point where the heroes are defending their position against attacking Egyptian armor using an RPG, firing it WITHOUT the rocket propelled grenade! And exploding helicopters - well it was a nice idea on paper.

You can only imagine how Israeli veterans just returned home from the conflict must have reacted seeing it. Anyone with PTSD would not have gone for a start. And the rest would have taken it as 'light comic relief' it's so laughable.

Record from late night schlock channels because your money is better spent elsewhere
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