Bad Movie, Terrible Story

Rating: 1/10 (7 February 2006)

A highly unrealistic story of a group of men sent to mass murder a group of unarmed German officers and their wives by locking them in a bunker, pouring gasoline on them, and setting fire to them. The creators of this story seem to have tried to make up for the bad acting and lack of reality by lots of explosions, acrobatic dying, and machismo. I find it interesting that the filmmakers did not realize that if this story had taken place in real-life, the American soldiers and their superiors would have been guilty of committing a war crime. Another person indicated that the women were prostitutes, which would add crimes against humanity to the charge. This was not a battle against armed combatants, it was an Auschwitz-style execution. I have nothing good to say about the German army of WWII, but in democratic countries, people are entitled to a trial before being executed. There is no indication that any of the German officers that were burned alive were Nazis, and I didn't see any SS uniforms. If they were SS from the Death's Head Brigade, then burning them alive would be justice (after a trial), but this film didn't make that distinction.