Reception
The film was given very negative reviews.
The movie received a 13% 'rotten' rating on the film critic aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, with five online critics writing a decade or more after the movie's release. Nearly 80% of Rotten Tomatoes' 10,000 users who commented, rated the film "Rotten."
In one of the few contemporaneous reviews, Entertainment Weekly critic Frank Lovece wrote, "The movie isn't merely wrong for kids — it opens in pre-war Italy with a sequence in Italian with subtitles, and a machine-gun slaughter — it's just all wrong", and decried the "shapeless blob of a plot" in grading the film "F".
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