The best war film ever. Period.

Rating: 10/10 (3 March 2001)

This film, often overlooked, has got to be the best war film ever made. It's cast of big names is HUGE. It is far better than many other films of it's era due to the believability of the acting. There are no dramatic Americans making proud speeches here, or trying to bring the war to an end single handed.
The action is also very believable, with pointless deaths and seemingly stupid decisions made on both sides (mostly, I'm sad to say, on the part of the Allies), and portraying a seemingly impossible list of unlikely coincidences, which, taken alone, may not have had that much outcome on the operation, but piled together doomed the venture almost from the outset.
This is a fantastic film, and a must for anyone that has yet to see it and would like an insight into the realities of war.