Amazed at the supercilious nature of the commenters...

Rating: 9/10 (20 October 2006)

It's a MOVIE, people...
It isn't a documentary.
Try thinking "escapism" and "entertainment" before you start bashing the people who made it. This was an effort to create a movie that was BASED on a period of time, namely WW II, and beyond that, it is a tale, a yarn, and fictional. For people to get so badly bent out of shape over something like this, is beyond comprehension.
It really makes us feel good when we catch things that other people do wrong, doesn't it?
I happen to be an Historian by profession. It really doesn't bother me very much to know that Hollywood, who makes their money by filming fictional things, took so much liberty with history. They never billed it as a documentary, so why castigate them so much? I don't see these kinds of comments about Star Trek movies, or about Chainsaw Massacre movies, so why go to this extreme to be so vehement? For a movie, I'd rate it 9 of 10. For a documentary I wouldn't even bother, because it isn't. And never was supposed to be.
Don't be so critical of something, unless you personally could do better. Which you can't.
Geez...