. . . . "Not even an iconic director (John Huston), actors such as Michael Caine, Max Von Sydow, and Sylvester Stallone, an incredibly tragic and fact-based inspiration for the plot, or the best soccer players in the world (Pele, Osvaldo Ardiles, Bobby Moore) could salvage the film, which revolved around a soccer match between Nazis and Allied prisoners of war in World War II." . .