Please don't spend money on this.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Brando's first (cinema) movie, and it's a good one.An army officer, played by Marlon Brando, is shot in WW2 and left paralyzed from the waist down. He ends up in a Veterans Hospital for rehabilitation but he is incredibly bitter and does his best to isolate himself from the other patients.Quite original in that it covers a part of war hardly anyone ever writes about or thinks about - what becomes of the soldiers whose bodies have been irrevocably shattered by the war. Shows well the trauma and bitterness they face, and how the injuries affect them mentally. Also shows how it affects their relationships and other aspects of their personal lives.Brando is great in the lead role - you would not know that it was his cinematic debut. No Oscar nomination but he more than made up up for it with four of his next five movies, getting Best Actor nominations for A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata! and Julius Caesar and then winning the Best Actor Oscar for On the Waterfront. (Even the one of the five that he didn't get nominated for was great - a certain little film called The Wild One...).Teresa Wright (of Mrs Minever and The Best Years of Our Lives fame) is great as Ellen.Solid supporting cast.Not just worth watching because it's Brando's first movie, worth watching because it's a great, original, sensitively told and well- made movie.

More curiosity piece than good cinema, Fred Zinnemann's "The Men" stars Marlon Brando in his film debut. Brando plays Lieutenant Wilozek, a WW2 veteran who returns to the United States paralysed. Taking place largely in Army medical facilities, the film watches with grim fascination as wounded soldiers and paralysed men struggle to cope with their debilitations. Some men crawl slowly back to some semblance of physical and psychological health, others seem lost, trapped in broken shells of flesh.While Brando is riveting and some of the film's moments are appropriately sensitive, the film mostly reeks of producer Stanley Kramer. Kramer specialised in heavy handed "message movies" which pretend to say the right thing but do something else. In "The Men's" case we have a syrupy soap opera about the tolls of war, the suffering of paraplegics, the self-loathing and shame engendered by armed conflicts, that suddenly shifts from becoming a glorified public awareness video to a story about the healing power of both love and never-give-up military medics. By the film's end, it becomes "Brando's responsibility to heal". Progress can't be made unless he "stops being a bad boy".Fred Zinnemann, a sometimes excellent director, elevates some moments, hits us with a somewhat dark ending and goes in some territory which was deemed shocking back in the 1950s (Brando's sexual impotency), but much of the film is overly talkative. Blame Kramer.6.9/10 – Worth one viewing.

A fantastic film, and a very important one, based on the story of Carl Foreman (who's screenplay was nominated for an Oscar). Actors and and real veterans portray men/soldiers, who were injured during war. Everyone especially Marlon Brando, who plays Ken and is paralyzed below the waist, gave a superb performance.I could quote the whole film, there are just so many good moments! They know they will never walk again, but that doesn't hold them from living their lives. They joke around with the doctors, with the nursers and make fun of each other. Of course there are also the sad and depressing moments, i.e. when they realize they will never have children, or their wives want to get divorced, they stop loving themselves and hate the fact they need help from others. I'd say "The Men" is a classic everyone can watch, even if it's just to see Marlon Brando (who allegedly lay in a bed in a veterans' hospital for a month to to prepare for his role as paraplegic) at the beginning of his wonderful career.

Marlon Brando and Teresa Wright give fine performances as a disabled veteran and his girlfriend/wife. After Brando's character is paralyzed from the chest down in WWII, he goes through anger and denial before deciding to rebuild his life. After marrying his old girlfriend (Wright), he begins to question their life together and flees back to his old pals at the paralyzed veterans' center. All is forgiven as the two reconcile, resigned to a future they never could have planned.Brando and Wright are good, of course. However, the film belongs to the supporting cast, primarily Jack Webb and Richard Erdman as Brando's paralyzed buddies at the veterans' center, and to Everett Sloane, who towers over everyone as a wise and brutally honest physician. It's not a feel-good movie, but one that gives valuable insight into the challenges faced by many men returning from war. It's also pretty daring for 1950, with its frank treatment of some pretty heavy subject matter.