The best WW2 movie I have seen.

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 2006)

This movie is by far the best WW2 movie I have seen. While it may lack a single main character, it has a very detailed plot, and represents the events of one of the biggest blunders during the war, in a great depth. I was not familiar with the history or the event when I saw the movie. When it was over I knew all I could about the story. Watching numerous documentaries after that did not add a single bit of information to what I have learned from the movies. The lack of a main character is indeed compensated by multiple characters in the movie, each performing great and adding to the whole picture. Not only the movie reveals the story, it indeed reveals the personal feelings of each of the heroes in detail, and makes you understand how such a blunder was possible. The overconfidence, personal pride, lack of experience, pure incompetence, politics, it is all there and much more. You can see the events trough the ayes of the solders, the civilians, the Americans, British, and Germans. When the movie is over, it will be like you have been there, and you have seen what WW2 was toward its end. With all the glory and all the disasters on both sides. What the movie may lack is a bit of better ending. While it is commonly accepted that operation 'Market Garden' was a huge blunder, at the end of the movie it appears at least as a partial success. It is impressive that trough all the horror of the movie, it keeps a signs of a good spirit, and does not leave you with only the bitter taste of the lost battles. Finally in addition to being precise to the events, and exposing in depth all the characters involved, it is very entertaining, and will keep you intrigued for the whole time. This movie is so full of events, that any form of boredom is out of question. I greatly recommend this movie to everyone.