Stinks

Rating: 1/10 (30 May 2014)

The script continually tells you how to feel without really developing the story or characters. Be happy, be sad, be scared, etc.
For example, to create a "chill", let someone discover a barrow filled with gold fillings. Announce the finding, and then move on to the next joke or next forced moment.
Need a moment of comradery? Let's have one of the team step on a landmine, but not step off. Next, have each of the team members enter the room and make a one liner. (I'm sure the guy standing on the mine appreciated the chuckles.) They all work to put some weight down and then guess what, then they refuse to leave the room when the it is time for the guy to step off the mine. I can see putting your life on the line to save your buddy, but here's a first--have a bunch of guys hold his hand just so that he doesn't have to get blown up by himself, should it happen.
The liberal side of Clooney is sure leaking out. Need an anti-war moment? How about a good guy meeting a bad guy--a US soldier runs into a German/Nazi. In most movies, the American figures out how to kill or take prisoner the Nazi. Not here. They start a "dance" through the American's gestures and offerings (a cigarette) to relax and just agree that each should walk away. Even after the Nazi soldier leaves, the US soldiers don't go after him. Great, now the Nazi can get back to killing children and other things Nazi's are good at. Okay, maybe the soldier wasn't a Nazi, so he went back to killing other Allied soldiers.
I agree with another reviewer who said that this is an example of how not to make a movie. It was painful to watch--like a happy version of the Hollocaust that never really makes any point with any impact, though it seems to be telling you that it is all really important, in between the jokes.