Excellent Movie

Rating: 9/10 (12 August 2001)

I think of this movie as the Big Red One, seen from the German point of view. Yeah, I know the Cross of Iron is in the Eastern Front, but you get the point. James Coburn is like the Lee Marvin of BRO or like Sgt Katz from All quiet on the Western Front. These movies are REAL, not like the typical pap put out today, or the wartime propaganda of the 40's and 50's. Nor is it like the typical antiwar hippie stuff of the 70's. Cross of Iron shows what it was like to be a real grunt on the lines, living and dying for a lost cause. Rent it and enjoy.