Very disappointed by the film's ending.

Rating: 4/10 (5 February 2003)

After watching this movie, I was very perplexed. By the next day, I
figured out what bothered me about the movie. In 1965 there was a TV
series called "Hogan's Heroes", Starring Bob Crane as a Colonel in a
Nazi POW camp, operated by the infamous Col. Klink, played by Werner
Klemperer. Hart's War reminded me of that TV series, complete with the
home made radio from parts, and the American GI's bartering with the
Germans for various articles of comfort, such as boots, etc. All the
while, the American Colonel Hogan was sabotaging the efforts of the
German war effort.

The main difference between the TV series and Hart's War, was that the
TV series went on for 168 episodes, and Hart's War ended in just over 2
hours. Hence, the need for the plot twist at the end of the movie.

There have been a lot of war movies released in the past several years.
Maybe this movie would have been better if it was directed by Steven
Spielberg, and starred Jack Nicholson instead as Col.