Dismal movie: Both grotesquely violent and inanely saccharine.

Rating: 2/10 (10 March 2004)

The basic techniques of this film are sadistic gore and portentous heroic cliche. It is a revolting mixture. Dozens of times, we see the faces of people realizing they are about to die and then brutally slaughtered. As often as possible, cruelly and whilst attempting to surrender. All except the hero, who dies like a hero in an opera. And then the American flag flutters over the screen and the dewy-eyed veteran remembers.
Perhaps this is 'realism'. but so what. we choose what we want to watch and what should be put in movies. And regarding the last battle sequence, do armoured divisions really attack one at a time? Perhaps this is why the Germans lost.