Rather disappointing war movie, mixing tragedy and comedy with too much flippancy

Rating: 6/10 (2 March 2014)

I usually fall asleep when I go and see movies at late show times, but I think the quality of this movie contributed to my falling asleep. A t the beginning the movie seems to promise a lot, the cast is great and you probably expects a lot from such great actors, but the movie never takes off, for different reasons. First, the contrast between the bleak theme and the comic treatment of the theme itself leaves somehow perplexed, as a result of this, every time there is a dramatic potential, it is banally resolved with some comic expedient, which is something which may works once, twice but not for the entire length of the movie. Moreover, the scenes do not seem to work together and in the end I got the impression of a chaotic scene sequence, moreover not supported by a strong script, so that the movie loses pungency in progress. The cast is delivers greatly, but cannot balance the flaws of a movie which could have offered much more.