movie just about puts all of its million dollar budget on the screen

Rating: 10/10 (17 October 2014)

submitted 10/17/2013...with the possible exception of "metro Manila"(done on a shoestring budget), this is the most suspenseful movie I have seen this year,or possibly the last 10 years,where the act of just 'staying alive', substitutes for an actual plot(?). I would just like to know if my opinion is right, the Tiger tanks depicted in the film(real & replicas used?), would the sheer size & mammoth weight give it more of an advantage in the open(battle scene between TIGER & Pitt's Sherman)?, & more of a disadvantage in close, street-to-street fighting, where Pitt's puny, 75 mm armed SHerman has more maneuverability in blasting away entire buildings in every German village he visit death upon?...That said,I believe the far superior TIGER would have an engine driven turret to compensate for lack of maneuverability in the battle scenes taking place in the small,cramped streets of the towns depicted in the film. Whereas, older German,British, American tanks probably had to make do with manually driven turrets, a distinct disadvantage in close quarters?
All in all, this is the role that Pitt was born to do, SHia la Boef give an honest depiction of a participant in combat battle,following in the footsteps of the day-to-day trials & tribulations of Vic Morrow(60's hit TV series,"COMBAT").