Sad....

Rating: 3/10 (26 August 2009)

The first 45 minutes of this film actually had me fooled into thinking it was going to be a great movie. The multilingual dialog, acting, and story all seemed superb. Then came to the brutal scene of the killing of the German Officer with a baseball bat and I realized I had been duped. It's not like I went to this film expecting an all out serious movie, but this one stayed true to Hollywood's long line of anti-German American's the greatest 'war' films. Like we've come to expect, the Germans were portrayed as dirty monsters, idiots and murderers. I believe World War 2 was a disaster of epic proportions and am in no way advocating the crimes and horrors that some Germans were involved with, but I find it extremely sad what our sense of history has come to. How people can sit there, eating their junk food, laughing, cheering, as someone gets scalped, have their head beat in with a bat, a swastika carved in their flesh, is beyond me and I find it extremely disturbing. It's really amazing what passes for a good movie these days, and the fact that this movie is so highly acclaimed is a testimony to that and may just be evidence of a specific decline in humanity.