A disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (22 September 1998)

Like several of the viewers whose comments appear here, I was expecting great things because of all the hype, but was rather disappointed by the film when I actually saw it. True, the opening and closing half hours are very violent, with no holds barred in showing us the horrors of war (but let's face it - is there anyone out there who doesn't realize that war is horrible?)
I think one of the main problems I had with the film was that is was yet another of those nauseating "America won the war single-handed" type films (there were no references that I spotted to any other nation's contribution to the D-day landing). I also found the story line rather weak - the idea that a team of men would be dispatched to find one soldier just because his brothers had been killed is hard to swallow. Tragedies such as that must have occurred many times in WW2, and I can't imagine the military would go to those lengths every time it happened.
The script is also rather weak - for most of the middle part of the film, very little happens, and the scenes where the soldiers try to give deep philosophical insight into their feelings about the war just didn't grab me.
Sorry, but it's only a 5 out of 10 for me.