A sorry excuse for a war movie...

Rating: 2/10 (14 August 2018)

I think the only reason I give this 2 is because it had some genuine WW2 equipment in it.
This is probably one of the most appalling, pointless, revolting and unwatchable war movies of WW2 I've ever seen. I'm 60+ and i was brought up on WW2 movies. This is just grim, dirty, filthy...and I'm not talking about the physical environment which is about the only acceptably realistic aspect of the film.
This tank crew depiction almost makes you want the Germans to win. The Americans are virtually criminals. Mafiosi types. Something out of modern US urban culture of the sewers. There is a modern soullessness about this movie that does not represent the Generation of WW2. It represent the generation of post-Iraq and Afghanistan, of Trump on the way.
It bears no resemblance to 2 generations ago. The soul ethos, and camaraderie are missing, absent. It might as well be a tank crew of a Soviet punishment battalion. The director seems to have had more experience with violence and destruction in movies than with history and the WW2 military and the WW2 generation.
After about 15 mins I was ready to switch off in disgust. Americans always winning battles, Germans always losing. If the US army in Germany in 1945 had been like this, the Germans would never have chosen to surrender to them. Its a truly appalling misrepresentation of a generation.
But then modern US film making is in general grim and dark...maybe reflecting the soullessness of Trump USA.
I'll go somewhere else for WW2. European and Russian movies are much better than this. Hollywood is losing the plot.