Anti War war film, Peckinpah's only commercial war film

Rating: 9/10 (3 August 1999)

Sgt. Stiner is a hard man, life on the Russian front fighting for the Germans has made him so. The film clearly shows the brutality of war, the self sacrifice that people make the choices that people have to make. At one point in the movie a young Russian boy who Stiner befreinded is let go free just before a big battle, I have always questioned in my mind did Stiner let him go to save him or to use him as a stalking goat, the act takes on a different perspective when you ask that question.