Over the top cliché filled mess with a lot of yelling

Rating: 5/10 (5 December 2014)

What seems like a good cast and excellent cinematography and good directing turns into a laughable mess about 1/2 way through.
First, putting a completely inexperienced pencil pusher into a veteran lead tank company is just stupid. No officer would assign him to that position and no sergeant would accept him because he would have been a liability, which he of course is very quickly.
The amount of screaming and infighting that goes on is not very consistent with the chain of command in WW2, and the crew which is scared of the Sergeant seem to have no issue mouthing off, getting drunk and acting like total fools around him.
The scene where Pitt forces this innocent kid to shoot a German in the back came off as ridiculous. And would probably have ended up in a court martial in real life.
Then the girl the kid just met and fell for is killed just seconds after they leave and he acts like he lost his mother so they of course start beating him again like they do through half the film.
The final battle against what would have been the top trained German SS just looks like a bunch of idiots all racing toward their deaths without a plan when the German captain could have easily called in heavy cannon to take out the non functional sitting duck tank and saved 100's of his men.
Worth a viewing but don't expect much.
Also the intermingling of white and black troops seems unrealistic in WW2 since he black regiments were segregated.