Black Pow's

Rating: Null/10 (4 February 2004)

To the comment below, yes the Germans took black prisoners of war. See for example the book "Trail of the Fox" which describes the Afrika Korps capturing black South Africans fighting with the British in North Africa (and General Rommel's refusal to honor white South African POW's request to segregate them! Ironic indeed!). Also, the Germans captured any number of African American GI's, and in Belgium some years back, I learned that some were massacred during the Battle of the Bulge.
As for the movie, the soccer (football to non-Americans) scenes are well done, but the plot is absurd. The prisoners' reaction to their chance to escape at halftime stretches credulity, to say the least. Certainly worse movies have been made, but this one is a major disappointment.