Great flick

Rating: Null/10 (14 December 1998)

I thought this movie was outstanding, politically of an ilk with Das Boot. With a couple of the same minor flaws, too -- the score is sometimes heavy-handed, pacing is sometimes slow. But the flick goes pretty far, I think, in humanizing the WWII german army (the "grunts," anyway) and showing the lie in a lot of previous hollywood WWII flicks where the Germans are a bunch of extras waiting for John Wayne to shoot them.