Overrated

Rating: Null/10 (6 April 2002)

Where to begin?
I guess people like this because it has solid characterizations, and it's a good male bonding story with some action.
But it's a sanitized, cartoon-like view of a POW camp that couldn't have possibly existed. People's comments keep saying how "accurate" it is, but I don't know how they know that: Were these reviewers ever in a German POW camp? What POW camp would let prisoners wander around freely with tools? And the guards would be like waiters bringing them milk for tea? And in what POW camp would the prisoners have such privacy, and a lack of restriction on their activities. They have all kinds of secret meetings with no guards in sight. Oh, and the commandant's line about "sitting out the war in comfort" is absurd. These were Nazis, folks, not exactly known for their patience. This whole so-called POW camp looks like some country club.

This film absolutely stretches credulity to the limits, making the movie pretty much unwatchable.
Oh, and the German accents are Hogan's Heroes-style laughable. The whole thing plays out like a substandard TV movie
Sorry, this movie absolutely doesn't hold up.