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Rating: 7/10 (24 April 2014)

when you read or hear that the two biggest complaints are the scripts' use of the word 'soccer' ball instead of 'football', and the films declaration that 'the u.s.' occupy Germany instead of the 'allies' occupy Germany - YOU KNOW you're in for a good movie.
For every person that realizes it would have been more accurate to use the word 'football'(which it would have), there is a person sitting there that wouldn't know that is a mistake. As a matter of fact that other person viewing would have said,"they just called a soccer ball a football", but more to the point,... WHO CARES??!!
I suppose the third complaint if I kept reading further would be the fact that Germans are speaking English.
Let me first re-iterate that most American viewers don't like subtitles - especially if the film stars people who speak the English language. Spielberg 'dumbed' it up for us in 'War Horse', it's been done hundreds of times.
Anybody that can find 2 or three things to complain about this film is no rocket scientist(but finding more would be a serious issue), and then to do it without mentioning ANY of the MANY qualities of this film that are flat-out excellent is just an unjustice for anyone thinking about watching this film.
The cinematography is aces, Geoffrey Rush delightful as usual, and John Williams' score is one of his best(now thats saying something that truly DOES matter).
This is a great film. Rush to the redbox.
83/100 Creeps into the back-end of 2013's top ten for me(out of 94 films as of this review).