The Medic

A rightfully forgotten film. It is too artificial, and sterile in its direction. It may have a strong theme, playing with the idea of the Third World War in Europe, and looking at it through the eyes of a doctor in a military field hospital. However, for the overwhelming majority of its duration, the viewer doesn't feel any real life, real pain, dirt, uncertainty, and fear. It usually looks like a military exercise with new technology, where all participants try to fulfill its script. Alain Delon's psychological acting, which this type of film requires, never really worked well, and you simply don't believe in the man who struggles more with accepting the reality of everything happening around him than with the lives of his patients. The dialogue is also weak. In short, this film deserves to rest somewhere in an archive. Overall impression: 40%. (03/23/2014)