***1/2

Rating: 9/10 (16 July 2015)

This film if I may use a pun certainly does not tank.
Soldiers inside Germany as the war nears it end is the theme of this film. Some of the guys in those tanks would be undesirable by any standard. Vulgar, nasty and who knows what else, their saving grace was that they knew they were there to do a job, and that they did.
Brad Pitt is excellent as their leader, but it is Shia LeBoeuf, as Norman, an almost nerd, who is thrown upon them and learns the horrors of war real fast and accepts his responsibility in it.
Pitt states that even as the war is winding down, there will be Germans who shall have to be killed.
We see the interaction that develops among the 5 guys and into their final battle as a team.