at least a twist of fate!

Rating: 4/10 (13 April 2014)

Sorry- this did not meet my expectations. First, i don't know much about war but i guess there is no armistice-button. Most of this is a massacre (if you watch the directors cut), and Nicholas Cage has a loss of memories (as he lies in the hospital with open eyes), is almost deaf, but suddenly his acoustic senses are intact, so he returns to war like all of what happened earlier was a bad dream, and also later he is mostly spared by the bullets. The twist of fate, what you find in history books, is, that the guy shooting with the flamethrower becomes a target himself and seriously burned, so one of the comrades has to give him the coup de grace. However, the shootouts look realistic but the airplanes seem to be slower than the bullets, like a simulation. But-what did i expect? i was watching movies like "enigma" and "a beautiful mind" which were sophisticated, but this was mostly like "saving private Ryan" with a few navajoes. In this genre i recommend rather "the killing fields", "full metal jacket", "the dirty dozen", "where eagles dare", "casualties of war", "black hawk down" or "apocalypse now". The final issue is, did the character of "joe enders" played by Nicholas Cage who tried to act coldblooded and taciturn like charles bronson, really exist? in fact i heard about "Carlos James Lozada", "Randall Shughart", "Gary Gordon" and "Chester Nimitz" on afn radio europe(you will find them on wikipedia) who did, because this should be a criteria. for evaluating a movie.