Insulting to both Americans and Germans

Rating: 4/10 (31 May 2015)

This movie was so unrealistic that I simply could not accept it. Yes, we all know war is hell and all that. But this movie vomited up every cliché of post-Vietnam war movies and swirled them into an ahistorical and insulting mush. I watched it on a Lufthansa flight from Germany to the US and I was actually physically embarrassed by this film. If you are a fan of decent WWII films (i.e. Band of Brothers, Das Boot) you will find this one really hard to take. The Americans are boorish ethnically stereotyped thugs and the German soldiers are inhuman automatons. The civilian women are portrayed as scared whores. It's just awful all around. It's a big budget film with good production values but that's about all that can be said about it.