So blow the damn bridge already

Rating: 8/10 (25 October 1998)

Great gory realistic battle scenes. Some unrealistic stupidity in the plot (gee, all my bros are dead - think I'll stay here and get killed too) etc. Bad guys baaaaad. Good guys gooood. Not a word about the fact that both sides sent kids into a meat grinder, that kids on boths sides were scared as hell. The one German we are supposed to feel something about comes back later to kill kill kill.
And when push comes to shove, and the bridge should have been blown...poor plan. C'mon guys. Were these guys supposed to be idiots? I can think of a lot more defensible positions & solutions.
Go see 'A midnight clear' as it is a better movie in many respects and tries to leave you with the notion that the enemy were little different than ourselves.
This movie was good but left me without much feeling. "Deer Hunter", "Das Boot", and "Patton" made me feel something. Heck - even the older movies with limited high-tech effects, such as "Great Escape", "Twelve-o-clock High" and "Stalag 17" made me feel something more than this movie made me feel.
Nowhere near as powerful as Titanic so I hope this one does not get stuffed down our throats as best picture.