A Journey Through Tourist Board Cliche

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2001)

Sadly, despite the people involved this is as much 'Hollywood does World War 2' as anything produced in the last 20 years. The list of cliches is endless, but includes:
1) All Germans are humourless bastards. 2) All Italians love life and singing. 3) We're supposed to believe that the same Italian soldiers are garrisoned on Cephallonia for two years - while the Italian Army fights a war in North Africa against the allies and is also committed to fighting the Soviet Union alongside Hitler. 4) We're also supposed to accept the Italian Army as heroes, somehow overlooking all of the atrocities committed during the campaigns in Ethiopia and Albania. 5) a man somehow manages to survive a hail of bullets which kill all of his comrades ...
and so on ...
Romance 10, History 0 (Sadly in extra time)