The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985) - McLaglen's shameless, redonkulous rip-off

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A dubious, pink-and-orange, Turkish DVD cover for Andrew V. McLaglen's The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission

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Lee Marvin (Gorky Park (1983)) must gather 12 new criminals later in 1944; this time to murder a Nazi general, who plans to assassinate Hitler...!!! (The idea is that the general would be such a powerful successor that it will be better to let Hitler continue his reign of misery to its end!)

Next Mission gets awarded its single ♥ here mainly because, as a TV movie, it doesn't have to live up to quite the same high standards that the silver screen demands.
Michael Kane (All the Right Moves (1983)) has scripted this preposterous, first sequel, 19 years after the great original, The Dirty Dozen (1967), in which Marvin and Ernest Borgnine (Barabbas (1961)) revisit their characters in a plot set just months after the first one! - Talk about trying to erase two decades of your life! - Talk about a midlife crisis! - Talk about living in the past, and forever young! - Talk about going downhill in a majorly embarrassing way!
The entire plot, right down to the black hero who dies in the end, is a cheap rip-off of the great original film. The fact that Marvin and Borgnine contributed to this predation is a sad fact.
It is directed by Andrew V. McLaglen (The Wild Geese (1978)), a veteran director of often dubious movies.

Related review:

Andrew V. McLaglen: Cahill U.S. Marshall/Cahill (1973) - John Wayne upholds the law in exciting late-career western

Watch a short TV trailer for the film here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: None - TV movie
= Uncertainty
[Even though Next Mission really sucks, two more Dirty Dozen TV sequels were devised, indicating that they were a good syndication business: The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1988), with Telly Savales, Borgnine, Bo Svenson and others, and The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988), also with Savales and Borgnine. Dirty Dozen: The Series (1988-?), without any of the stars of the original, is also something that exists.]

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