War is hell, this movie definitely isn't!

Rating: 8/10 (23 May 2015)

This is a fine piece of cinema by Hollywood standards. It's gritty, bleak and probably one of the more realistic depictions of the loss of humanity towards the end of a long and particularly vicious war. Anyone who doesn't see the strong realism in the amoral and violent behaviour standards of Wardaddy and his crew has obviously never spent time with returned service personnel from that era, listening to their stories of what they experienced and observed. The final battle is the most obviously Hollywood-influenced section of the movie, the rest is as good and as gripping as I've ever seen. Heroic? No. Triumphant? No. Worth watching? Absolutely!