Baffled by overall rating listed

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2015)

This movie failed on so many levels, I cannot fathom how the public has rated it so highly here. I like the majority of the actors, I enjoy a good war movie, but a bad film is a bad film. It has a storyline which leaves the viewer with no emotional connection to the main characters, battles which have WWII tanks shooting off what look like Star Wars laser shots-aesthetically out of tune with the "gritty" look the film appeared to be going for-, and confusing scenes of dialog which contradict the relationship between the characters. Beyond that, the ludicrous final stand-off when a good leader (which throughout the entire film they purported him to be) would have taken his men to safety -was simply too much. Then when you just couldn't imagine something topping that poor story-telling, two grenades are tossed into the tank at the end with an exaggerated delay time-convenient for the last survivor to escape- only to have him go back into the tank the next morning and find that the corpses inside the tank are completely intact-no lingering smoke or smoldering items, not a hair out of place regardless of being at point-blank range INSIDE a tank. Two, not one, grenades. Really?