Plot: kill Germans. A lot.

Rating: 4/10 (2 February 2015)

This film only serves to make Brad Pitt seems really bad-ass and as a cheap excuse to shoot up a million Germans (maybe less, maybe more, didn't count). While Inglourious Bastards was meant to be fictional, funny and provocative it was still more realistic and convincing than this piece that actually portrays as a historic-isch movie.
The characters are flimsy, non coherent and self contradictory. Norman hates killing but than suddenly likes it. Don does everything to keep his crew alive through Africa, D-Day and countless other battles but than for no obvious reason sacrifices his crew to the cause when their tank breaks down. The remaining characters are a religious guy, a Mexican and an asshole. Their only role seems to be to make the main characters Don and Norman look good.
As for realism, there's non. Sure you see bodyparts being ripped of and explosions but that has already been done better and more in Saving Private Ryan. Sore for eyes are the coincidences (Don and Norman leave building - building blows up with Normans short lived love-affair landing on-top of the rubble, how convenient) and the fact that the 300+ SS soldiers go running up and down in the firing line when confronted with a broken down tank. Just why would an elite troop of experienced soldiers do such a ridiculous thing? If you like tanks and explosions this film has something to offer. If you're looking for a story or realism than please skip this one.