brutally realistic battle

Rating: 7/10 (2 March 2002)

Ridley Scott once more shows that he is the ultimate director to stage-manage a battle of this scale. Don't expect an elaborate story, the few story telling elements are limited to the usual war movie sapiences such as : "war is a bad thing", "don't mess with things you don't understand" and "we leave no man behind". Don't expect either any critical reflection about the motifs or the moral side of this conflict and the dealing with it, you will simply be disappointed. You will get two hours of impressive, brutal, bloody, funny, messy, (in the end unnerving), loud, stupid, nerve-racking battle-, war - and fight sequences that make "Saving Private Ryan" look like a Disney-film.