This was another film I watched in the hospital, this time from the very first shot, which I recognized in about half a second, up until a point maybe twenty minutes from the end. The real George S. Patton Jr. was a polarizing figure to the public and the director leaned hard into this, making him as annoyingly captivating as possible, to the dismay of his superiors and many who served under him. The really dark elements of his life such as his reputed anti-semitism and fascistic sympathies were not on display though. The cinematography and editing was first-quality, really making such a long film palatable to an impatient audience, and the principal actors were at the top of their games. Looking at this from the perspective of the mid-2020s gives a whole different feeling from the way it came of during the Vietnam War but you do get the sense that the questions it asks about how the American public views the military are still important and hard to work through.