The War Movie To Start and End All War Movies

Rating: 10/10 (16 July 2019)

All war movies should be compared to this movie and this one is better, more intense, and more accurate than most of them. The fact that it came out so close to the end of the war and really shined a light on the horrors of war and how terrible a thing it is for all involved is groundbreaking. It is from the German perspective and although us in America might think the Germans deserved what they got and they don't deserve sympathy it shows a bunch of kids getting killed, injured, or mentally damaged and no one deserves that. The most memorable scenes for me are the first trench warfare attack sequence with a soundtrack of a constant barrage of explosions in the background, people being beat to death with shovels, stabbed, and more and the scene where the young soldier carries the older one on his back and he dies as he's speaking to him. It captures the fact that a lot of people just died and that was it and the war didn't pick or choose who lived and died - bad things happened to good people. Anyway, I've gone on long enough - watch at your earliest convenience for an important history lesson.