You've probably seen this before

Rating: 8/10 (3 November 2014)

I'd like to start out by saying this is not a bad a movie. I needed to say that, because in the next few lines it may look like I'm saying the opposite. If you've ever seen a more modern war movie, than this won't bring any surprises. I'm thinking at movies like Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket or The Thin Red Line. These movies were all pretty great and brought something new to the image of war and war movies in general. This movie, on the other hand, doesn't do that. It's a 'dog death' away from being the biggest horde of war movie clichés of all time. If you love seeing them again, because you liked them in some more original movie, then this is the movie for you, if not it will be pretty boring most of the time. But enough of that, if we look at the main "theme" of the movie, the Father-Son relationship between the characters and the sacrificial ending. That's pretty much straight out of Saving Private Ryan, only with Brad Pitt in the place of Tom Hanks. But I can't be mad at this movie, cause although it's full of clichés they are executed very brilliantly. The feeling, the action, the scenes are very good and beautiful. There are some especially awesome scenes, like the one with the girl or the one with the Tiger tank. At the end what saves the movie from total failure is the acting job of Brad Pitt and Logan Lerman. Their characters are built well and they make a good job with them. On the other hand the 3 other tank members really don't have much character to them. All in all I think it's watchable. If you've never seen a war movie, you can start with this. But I recommend the other's... As for the reasoning for why did I give such a high score after bashing the hell out of the movie: I think it should be a message to everyone, that even if this is not the worlds best movie, we want more movies of this caliber or higher (get it?).