Brad's Beast?, or Das Brad?, or Brad's Army?....

Rating: 6/10 (2 December 2014)

Army sergeant Wardaddy, is the commander of a Sherman tank. Determined to strike a decisive victory for the Allies in the European Theatre, Wardaddy leads his five-man crew on a treacherous mission behind enemy lines.
His mission is complicated by the sudden appearance of a rookie soldier in his platoon, the sergeant knows that victory is within reach, and vows to achieve it by any means necessary.....
Yep, it's another War is Hell movie, and by no means am I sniping at anybody who fought in any War, they are heroes, and fought among other things, for Queen, Country, and Freedom of speech.
The film mainly consists of Brad's Army (ha ha), moving from one scenario to the next, meeting up with Jason Issacs, who outgrizzles everyone on screen. And Brad's Army has all the usual suspects you'd see in your atypical war movie.
There's the new one, there's the two Bolshevik ones who are horrible to the new one, there is the quiet logical, and there is the tank.
Oh, and as usual there is a scene with the new one involving a begging German and an Allie trying to get him to kill him.
Seen it all before, many a time.
But the action scenes are totally adequate, and there is a wonderful scene about halfway though the film where Pitt and Lerman hole themselves up with two German women, before being rudely interrupted by their colleagues.
If the rest of the film was like this fifteen minute scene, it could have been one of the films of the year.
Instead, its Brad Pitt in a tank, but you'll be yearning for Brad in Inglorious Ahems