Director's failure at all fronts

Rating: 2/10 (28 March 2001)

The movie is a FAILURE: from the beginning, where multiple unsuccessful attempts were made to reproduce the eye-catching battle moments from "Saving Private Ryan" to the ending (as precisely pointed out by one of the reviewers here) in Clint Eastwood style. The worst stereotypes about both nations (Russian, German) propagated throughout the script; a war story brought down to the level of an output from a "versificator" machine in George Orwell's "1984". I thought I was too harsh giving it "2" (1 + 1 for Ed Harris's play - the only part worth seeing). Yet, besides watching Harris, it's a waste of time. I wish I had given it "1" like the German guy did.