Too Late the Hero 1970

Roger Greenspun, New York Times: Although committed to the notion that war is an inclusive system of betrayals, the film subverts that notion and settles instead for some fashionable ironies and remarkably conventional jungle warfare displays. Read more

TIME Magazine: The most aggravating thing about Too Late the Hero is that Aldrich is a film maker of some accomplishment. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: The action has its moments (with the patrol's paranoia fed by taunting messages from Japanese loudspeakers hidden in the jungle), and the bantering dialogue is often very funny. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: An okay World War II melodrama, featuring Michael Caine and Cliff Robertson as antagonists who come to respect each other in the course of destroying a Jaanese radio transmitter. Read more