Not what I hoped for

Rating: 6/10 (4 November 2014)

This movie was entertaining, but did not live up to my expectations and has many similarities with Saving Private Ryan.
The story was shallow and though some scenes were impressive I often could not relate to them. Occasionally the story goes too fast, then too slow and scenes were not really tied together in a fluent manner. Other scenes were such an obvious setup for a certain moral explanation later, it became a little too predictive. Characters have little or no background.
A plus in this movie, is the acting which was very good. Usually you can recognize the actors by their acting style, but I didn't remember Shia Labeouf playing in this movie when watching it and did not recognize him at all. The other actors perform equally well and on occasion seem to their very best to save the thin story line.
All in all it was a very watchable movie, though more for a Friday night movie at home setting than for in a movie theater.