Preposterous story line but still entertaining

Rating: 6/10 (6 April 2008)

As SS-Standartenführer Kramer says during the movie: Preposterous! I am a BIG fan of war movies - especially WWII adventure movies - but it seriously took me three tries to make it through this movie without falling asleep (it helped that the third time I watched it during the day). Sure there is plenty of action in it and a couple of great actors (though not here) but there is something about the movie that just didn't grab me. It think it has to be the story line. There are just too many unbelievable elements: from the far fetched plot, to the fact they must have carried about a ton of explosives around, to the innumerable scrapes the good guys just barely get out of. That and I think the characters are too one dimensional.
Other reviewers have compared WED to Guns of Navarrone, but IMO Guns is a far superior movie largely because it doesn't have all the plot twists and because it strikes me as far more believable. The characters have a lot more depth in Guns as well.