Unbelievable, farcical and boring

Rating: 1/10 (25 March 2017)

I was hoping to to see a gritty war film along the same lines as Saving Private Ryan or the excellent TV series Band of Brothers, especially given the cast and the generous budget. I was sadly mistaken. This is just another one of those WWII films where a handful of heroic US soldiers take on and wipe out whole battalions of elite German troops in a totally unconvincing and ridiculous way. The action scenes are just not believable. Using a Sherman tank, not the best choice as they were known as a 'Ronsons' after the lighter, because they caught fire very easily, this sort of 'A' team' takes on hundreds of elite German troops. Their machine guns seem to have unlimited amounts of ammunition and the German troops having been surprised by the tank continue to run around like headless chickens for ages allowing themselves to be mown down by the score. There were many impossibilities and inaccuracies in the action scenes, but by golly it must have made the American audiences back home in the US puff out their chests and feel great! This film adds nothing to understanding WWII and it's horrors and I just don't understand why it was made at all other than to make shareholders a profit. Basically this sort of garbage should never have made it to the big screen or small screen for that matter, it should have been quietly left to rot in some dark corner or better still put on a spacecraft and blasted off into outer space where a million years from now some unfortunate alien might stumble upon it!