Very poor effort

Rating: 3/10 (23 February 2015)

A waste of time in almost every sense. No real story present, hollow characters, bad effects, bad acting. I was enthusiastic to finally see a WW2-movie focused on a tank crew with 2014 special effects, but was very disappointed. Everything about this shipwreck just looks and feels uninspired. There is no more story then "5 guys in a tank, Germany 1944", while this could be a base for a decent movie. The acting is horrible, it's either phoned in (Brad Pitt) or overacted (everyone else). The locations and sets could have been much better, almost no imagination needed in war-torn Germany 1944, but it all feels uninspired - again. The village they enter on a scouting mission looks and feels fake and so does everything happening in that village - the indoors lunch scene is totally ridiculous and never gets credible. The shooting of the SS-officer entering the village square is one of the worst ever, looks like how an 8 year old would act. The end of the movie is so ridiculous that I'm not even going to describe it - the A-team TV-series offered more realistic shootouts. The tank crew's acting is perhaps the worst of all, especially the lead character "Norman" - this kid must have had his daddy arrange an acting gig for him because he can't have gotten it for his talent. Or, keeping every other decision the director made in mind... Maybe the directory actually thought he was good. This movie is garbage.