Greg Dorr’s review published on Letterboxd:
As a cinematographer, Jack Cardiff shot some of the most stunning works in the history of cinema — including BLACK NARCISSUS and THE RED SHOES. Although the films in Cardiff's run as a director in the 1960s and 1970s tended to be less glamorous, his pulpy 1968 war adventure DARK OF THE SUN has its share of striking, if unpolished, images, as well as a touch of thematic residue from the loftier pictures in his background.
When it operates as pure adventure — and macho bromance — there isn't much to find fault with in DARK OF THE SUN. However, it diverges from that path in ways that, at first, seem half-hearted, but eventually consume the film, giving it an anti-climatic ending that might better suit a different movie.