Everything a war movie needs (almost) and nothing it doesn't

Rating: 9/10 (21 November 2019)

Finally a movie about ww2 with no stupid subplot. Show us the battles, the tactics, the carnage, make it as big as it was, with cgi nothing is holding you back. You cannot make up a story more interesting than the real deal, so please please don't try. (Saving private Ryan is a prime example of a moronic plot in a ww2 setting.) The cgi has been criticised, I cannot see why. They are great and necessary, because there are not a fleet of veteran warplanes and -ships laying around to blow up. I hold one star back because they held back on the blood and guts, which needs to be there, because they are in war. War is not a sport, it is awful, and should be shown that way. This is a true war movie about the war itself. I do not care if the lines are sparse and cheesy, ww2 is not primarily remembered for its dialogues but for the total chaos which swept around the globe and left a wake of death and destruction in a scale never seen before or since.