Holy crap, this is cool! *high fives frat brother*

Rating: 4/10 (1 December 2014)

More dudebro j.o. material from director David Ayer, given an air of respectability by its WWII subject matter. Really, it could have just as easily been the third G.I. Joe movie. Or maybe not. It's far more violent than that. You can really tell Ayer is getting off on the violence. He films it so lovingly, trying to pass it off as "the horrors of war." Yes, I'm sure war was this awful, but you're rolling around in it, dude. Brad Pitt stars as the commander of a tank crew. Logan Lerman stars as his new recruit - for many years now, Pitt hasn't lost a man, but now he finally has and Lerman is the unfortunate replacement (as Lerman arrives at the assignment, he's forced to peel the old guy's face off the inside of the tank). Shia LaBeouf, Michael Pena and Jon Bernthal round out the tank crew. Lerman is a newbie, and when he bitches out during the first big action sequence, the other men, who are already mean to him, are forced to make him a man by having him execute a P.O.W. and then get him laid. The action sequences are pretty good, truth be told, but this is WWII from the point of view of someone who's a big fan of Call of Duty, not from someone who has anything to say. The acting is acceptable, but nothing special.