Black comedy resolves into the horror of human nature.

Rating: 10/10 (22 April 2002)

This is the most precise, accurate depiction of war I've ever seen on film. The warm funny humanity of a small group of disgruntled men lost in the night fog is shattered by the easy violence of a dawn that finds them facing an enemy tank. Two men running for their lives are thrown into a trench in no man's land. Two men from the opposing side go on a mission to find out whether there are any survivors. And the story takes off from there. Although there are moments of irony, humor and warmth, the end is chilling and very, very real. If we are doomed, it is by our own nature.