Well, I somewhat enjoyed it, but....

Rating: 6/10 (26 January 2015)

It would have been nice if...
They had someone who actually had any inkling of tank battle tactics to do the choreography for those scenes. A Tiger tank would not simply sit in one place whilst another tank went behind it. It would either pivot in place to keep its superior forward glacis facing the enemy, or just back away from the approaching tank to acccomplish the same thing. Likewise, in open terrain, there was no need for the tanks in that particular battle to be as close as they were. In short, it was dumb.
It would also have been nice if they had someone who could just point out that the behaviour of the German SS in the final battle was just ludicrous. Oh look! There's an American tank at a crossroads. It looks like it is destroyed. Let's not send some scouts ahead to check, but just all bundle up to it as if we aren't in the middle of a frickin' war! And, once the ruse was uncovered, the SS all act like completely inept lemmings, throwing themselves repeatedly at the tank armed with ineffectual sidearms.
I suspect the point of the movie was to show that war is hell and good people can turn bad, but there was really nothing much likable about the tank crew at all. Most of them came across as loud-mouth, drunken jocks for the most part. In the end, their deaths meant little to me as a viewer and even the token act of kindness at the end had me rolling my eyes.
Some people have praised the "realism" of this movie, but honestly, there isn't much on display here.
But... you said you enjoyed it! Well, yes i said I somewhat enjoyed it. Putting aside the nonsense above, I enjoyed the acting on display. Even Brad Pitt wasn't as wooden as normal and I was pleasantly surprised by Shia LaBoeuf and Jon Bernthal, though the latter is getting typecast as an a-hole I think. The cast gave it their all, though Jason Isaacs was wasted in his token role.
Though I disliked the characters, the actors made me believe they were real enough. It is just a shame the plot wasn't up to the task of being as believable.
SUMMARY: Some nice acting, but unlikable characters and woeful lack of common sense in the action scenes make this a bit of a chore to wade through. A nice idea, but needed a few more technical advisors, methinks.