A grim, yet still Hollywood look at WW2

Rating: 8/10 (30 October 2014)

(74%) If the light, fun, and goofy sense of humour of "Kelly's heroes" had been replaced with buckets of blood, mud, and misery then this would be the outcome. Without much doubt this is amongst one of the better war movies in recent years, and along with it is a hard harsh look at the sheer ugly awfulness of conflict. Brad Pitt leads the movie with a strong experienced performance as a sergeant with more than a few battles under his belt leading a perfectly fine supporting cast. The plentiful battles themselves are very well put together and they'd almost be fun to watch if this didn't pull any punches with its grim effects of the bullets and bombs making for a more tense than exciting watch. And even though it isn't going to worry the very best of the genre, fans of war films need to get down to the nearest cinema pretty sharpish.