Cheap and Awful

Rating: 3/10 (21 December 2011)

I don't like this movie. The Nazis were beasts, but brave and disciplined. This is mostly about celebrating deserters. Did most of the German soldiers, even in the middle of the worst hell of their dreams, desert? I don't think so. Furthermore the sets are cheap and repetitive. Characters wander around (German and Russian) bumping into one another again and again--as if the city and its environs didn't contain millions of people!
This movie's not in the same class as Das Boot, Der Untergang--or even Saving Private Ryan. The dead (of both sides) at Stalingrad deserve a better celluloid memorial than this.