I wanted to like it, I failed

Rating: 6/10 (29 January 2015)

Let me start with saying I usually enjoy these kind of WWII movies.
The good: The cast is promising - Pitt and LeBeouf do a really good acting job. Visuals throughout the movie are very impressive and the idea of focusing on a tank crew is also rather novel and not too overdone.
The bad: A lot of scenes that do not make any sense. Character motivations that are unclear and clash with the character that was established in previous scenes. There are several time-warps where in a scene towards the end time does not seem to pass at all while the characters converse and bond, then, during a battle it suddenly becomes night within the time it takes to shoot empty one machine gun belt of ammo.
There is a lot of bible-quoting going on that also really has not much to do with the scene and seems out of place. Finally the German SS infantry seems to be unable to perform the most basic of tasks and acts entirely irrational and unorganized.
Could have been a great movie, ended up being a bunch of seen-before scenes stitched and cut together without the viewer being able to make an emotional connection to the characters.