Don't Bother With It

Rating: 2/10 (23 August 2009)

There are war movies, and there are war movies. Some people call "Casablanca" a war movie. I don't. War movies are supposed to depict actual fighting...you know, shooting and combat. I always feel especially cheated when they promote a film as a 'war' movie, and it involves little or no artillery fire. This film portrays a few minutes of horrendous bloodletting, but no actual on screen 'combat'.
It's the same old stuff you've seen from Tarantino. Threats, hostile situations, characters being backed into a corner, more threats, murders and mutilation. It features the usual round about dialogue, except here it goes on and on and on.
Some of the actors are entertaining. One guy gives the worst performance as Hitler I've ever seen. Brad Pitt acts like a clown.
So this isn't really a 'war' film. I thought it might be an updated version of the "Dirty Dozen" but it doesn't resemble that one at all. Just a collection of drawn out confrontations that leave you really cold. Don't bother.