Completely forgettable!

Rating: 2/10 (6 February 2015)

This movie was irksome, mostly because it seemed to be going somewhere interesting, only to go nowhere. The most interesting part of the movie was the scene with the German women, but nothing really happens in that scene, and there is not much development. One of the women dies during a German retaliatory bombing, and so the ham-fisted writer reminds us, yet again, "This is war". Yeah, I got that. Is that all? Seems that really is all this insipid movie has to say--"what a man can do to another man".
The tank characters were cartoons, except Pitt's character. The others were (a)the religious nut; (b) the green moon-faced scared newbie; (c) the brute; and (d)the immigrant (cholo). It was hard to empathize with any of them.
I thought the movie would be a real expose of how the German Panzer and Tiger tanks fought tank battles, and the tactical difficulties American tankers had to face; instead, we only see one tank battle, really, and a preposterous scene at the end where the 5 tankers decide to "stand their ground" in a broken tank in the middle of the road, against a battalion of Waffen SS. Of course, before they meet their ultimate demise (except, of course, the baby-faced newbie, who saves himself by hiding under the tank), they kill a great percentage of the battalion, because the Germans run right in front of the the guns, back and forth, back and forth, instead of sneaking up behind the tank or taking it out with one of their many anti-tank weapons.
Quite disappointing, and a sheer waste of time, with very little entertainment value.