Good but not great

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 1999)

This movie could not have been more violent if it tried. For this reason I feel a lot of incidents were added for nothing other than the shock value, such as the when the German soldier slowly stabs the American private (which, by the way, was the sickest thing I've ever seen in a movie, done to the character I liked the best!) I fully understand that war is hell, but I thought it was very unlikely that the German would have gone up the stairs in that way, and end up killing by a knife. I feel the scene was included (awkwardly) for only the shock value. Because of this I lost respect for the movie. The storyline was good and the re-creation of the war was also very good, but because of the above reasons I wouldn't consider it a great movie.