An American War?

Rating: Null/10 (27 March 2000)

Well, at least on video/DVD you can fastwind through the pointless graveyard scene that opens and closes the movie. The rest of the film is surprisingly moving, so long as you suspend disbelief enough to accept that the army would ever launch such a rescue mission.
The battle sequences are really unlike any other war movie I've seen; graphic and disturbing, rather than cheap gung-ho thrills. The handheld camera work draws you in and really makes you feel as if you're there experiencing it first-hand and the bleach-bypass effect gives the whole film a suitably cold and bleak look.
My only concern is that millions of Americans of my generation and younger might think that World War II was fought only between Americans and Germans. I am eternally grateful for the intervention of the US in World War II and I understand why the film revolves around a group of American soldiers, but the fact that no reference was made to the British Forces (who saw the war through from beginning to end) leaves an extremely bitter taste in the mouth.
What a shame.