A middling wartime movie with thrills , double agents, resistance fighters , crosses , double crossing , twists and turns . "Suicide Mission" concerns a squad whose assignment comes to a crashing end and resulting in an average war movie as beyond the twisting storyline it doesn't have a lot else going for it.
A unique Spanish/Italian war thriller, directed by Jose Luis Merino, the guy behind DUEL IN THE ECLIPSE and KILLERS OF THE CASTLE OF BLOOD. I have the feeling that the director was more at home in the spaghetti western and horror genres, because despite the originality of the storyline this is very much par for the course, a Euro-war film that's very typical by genre standards.
I'll say this much about Jose Luis Merino's WHEN HEROES DIE: It diverted my attention and absorbed me for about an hour or so. It's also one of those films that brings up the question that even if the first seventy minutes or so are dynamite, if your whole film unravels in the last three or four minutes, did you blow it?
During World War II a group of American soldiers carrying out a deadly mission behind German lines are captured. The German high command - Heinrich Himmler no less - decide to replace them with their own special forces men who adopt their identities, while using a Rommel lookalike to pretend he is the captured General, who will in turn assassinate General Eisenhower.