Eight Israeli soldiers are sent on a mission to take control of an enemy missile base, but face a deadly counterattack. 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.<br/><br/>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. 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.<br/><br/>Watching it in Hebrew (and understanding nothing) would be better for English speakers than the gruesome dubbed dialogue they're served up with.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Record from late night schlock channels because your money is better spent elsewhere
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