Excellent

Rating: 8/10 (15 June 2005)

What makes me enjoy war movies of this type is not the violence or action but that they make me appreciate my freedom. There are the fun war movies like Kelly's Heros etc. that are for entertainment. It's one of my favorite war movies. Movies like Saving Private Ryan and Saints and Soldiers make one think about what others have sacrificed and given, even if they didn't want to, so that we can be free. But one important distinction about Saints and Soldiers is that we realize that the "bad guys" are for the most part just like the "good guys". Certainly what the German army was fighting for was terrible but the individual German soldier was just as likely to not want to be at war and would rather be at home with family. Individual soldiers on both sides would likely be friends if not for the circumstances that bring them together. See this film and be grateful for your freedoms and remember that it didn't just happen. Someone had to fight for it and thousands have died for it.