Combat Realims?

Rating: 5/10 (28 January 2015)

I have never been in a war, so I am not the expert on this, but the night fight, seemed pretty ridicules. Would have been "easy" to take that tank out with some heavy weapons etc. hundreds vs a small tank crew... So honestly the ending is just plain stupid, for the most part the Germans just well ignore the tank and don't shoot at them when the Americans are in plain sight. But hey I haven't been in a war (and won't ever be, I hope) so I am not the expert here
However the camera work was very well done and the action and the hate felt warlike (what ever that means).
One point I appreciated though in this film, how it was portrayed (actually hinted at, will probably take another 5 decades before that is shown as it really was) how the Americans treated the women of the countries they liberated. Fact is they treated them like many "warriors" treat women. They do as they please with them.
I am glad they showed this, cause many Americans live under the illusion that American soldiers were somehow more decent and respectable than the soldiers of other countries (which in a way they were ;). But Americans raped 14,000 women in Great Britain, France and Germany. Men are Men, no matter what country they are from. And some Men take advantage of the weak.
So even if war is fought for the right reasons, the "good" people (and yes America was good back then and Germany evil) still do a lot of bad to the bad guys (and the bad innocent girls).
But well super mass rape and torture in Iraq killed those illusions, but don't think it was much different in WW II, even though that was a "rigtheous war". (sorry for repeating myself and shamelessly using this review to get my opinion across).