Hollywood Overkill--Literally

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 2015)

This movie seemed to take the worst of anecdotes and cram them together into the clichÃ© of a tank crew, Army operations in Western Europe, and magnify them like we do with crappy food: keep adding spices until it passes for edible. The repeated pseudo-epic scenes of combat with video-game tracer firing games tried to make the Germans of this time look like they overwhelmed the US tanks when in fact Sgt Dipshit and his crew of morons had to be told everything that troops do automatically when they're a...well..."crew." Interestingly, those outgunned, starving German troops who were bombed with volumes of air and ground ordnance they could only have dreamed of, took far better care of their "new-joins", making them feel welcome and taking them under the arms of a "tutor" who would show the new joins the "ropes," instead of a canned idiot line like "Don't get too close to anyone." For the evil Waffen SS, the author of which survived until just such a point as one of those Germans in the movie's initial attack against the German anti-tank guns (author was a soldier in a scatch-pit in the dirt) I recommend reading the biography Black Edelweiss.