Thrilling friendship, but laughable battles

Rating: 8/10 (4 April 2020)

Up to the end scene, I would be inclined to give this movie a 9. Beautiful scenes, decent global story, good music, but most importantly - a captivating brotherhood of people that have each other's life in their hands. I loved to see how the circumstances push people to become very different - annoying, loud, brutal, primitive... But that's the outer shell - inside, the brotherly bond is always there.
However, then comes the ending... Up until here the fighting was already quite Hollywood-esque - the protagonists are always the winners and everybody depends only on them. But then at this end, where all normal people would have run, our heroes decide to stay in a suicide position "because we are told so".
Very surprisingly, the enemy is retreating for 5 minutes long, and luckily, our 5 heroes can already kill 100 enemies. Also luckily, the enemy forgets that they have anti-tank grenades or that there is a possibility to wait for backup since our heroes are trapped, and sacrifices 100 more units to the stranded but invincible Sherman tank. And who would have guessed, when they find their anti-tank grenades, they cannot succeed again.
What's the next step to keep the suspense? That's the unfortunate loss of our heroes. But again, we movie-goers are lucky, because our heroes do lose the battle easily - they die one by one. Even the boss dies! But of course, not easily - because Germans are only allowed to shoot from the front and only one person at a time. Oh, and with large calibre bullets that are actually not lethal. I am so glad that we had such people, I'm sure we've won the war because of a few dozen of such Americans.
Anyway, in short: the story of the battles, especially the last one, is laughable. But the friendship that is portrayed throughout the movie is brilliant!