Not over rated

Rating: Null/10 (17 November 2004)

Saints and Soldiers has a depth to it that is not found in almost any other film. Certainly not in your usual Hollywood shoot-'em-up variety. Kudos to Mr. Abel and Mr. Little on not selling out the story for the easy sell. This is the best yet.
Some reviews that I have read got hung up on the major plot twist as too convenient. Sorry. It's true. ***SPOILER ALERT*** The film is "based on true events" and the online material is farely explicit about the fact that the Deacon character who encounters a German soldier that he knew prior to the war is based on real people who had just such an experience. One of those "it's too good to be true" kind of true stories, I suppose.
This one's going in my DVD collection.