It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Best not to think about it?That's a horrible last act.The Lieutenant is concerned the Sergeant is softening.I understand the anger but humiliating people does not keep the world peaceful.Oh $hit.... No. That is worse than I suspected.I'd walk farther behind.The Sergeant is not perfect, but he is a wise human.OH $$$HH!!!! I jumped outa my chair.Great music for the non-dialog scenes.

Just when you think you've seen all there is to see concerning World War 2 and big screen stories, along comes a film shining a light on an aspect of the war that I would imagine very few know much about.Oscar nominated Danish/German film Land of Mine delivers a non-fictional narrative of a true life aspect of World War 2, that being upon the conclusion of fighting during the great war, German POW's (mainly young soldiers) were harnessed by the Danish army to take on the arduous and literally explosive task of disarming over 2 million mines that had been left scattered across the coastline of Denmark at the height of the World War 2 conflict.This little known (at least here in Australia) aspect of post-war Europe allows director Martin Zandvliet a chance to deliver some white knuckle big screen action as our rag-tag group of young German POWS go about their business of clearing out a section of Danish coastline under the often brutal care of Roland Møller's Danish Sergeant Carl Rasmussen.Land of Mine cares very little for adding much backstory or humanising any of these characters for us, we know and understand that what these men and boys on both sides have been through would be nothing short of horrific and instead Zandvliet places us alongside the group as they face a day to day proposition of death as their month long journey to find and disarm mines consumes their day to day lives.You're never under any confusion as to what this task required and it's one of those interesting conundrums as to whose lives were more important as the Danish saw an opportunity as such to get revenge on the German's that had caused so much pain for them, even if many of the POW's tasked with the mine clearances quite clearly were not often at fault.It's a little bit of shame that we don't get to know these characters better as Zandvliet's film pulls no punches when it comes to showing the true bloody nature of the task these individuals undertook but despite the fact Land of Mine's cold approach doesn't allow it to connect to us as emotionally as we could've done with, as an examination of a shocking aspect of post-World War 2 and an insight into a different facet of the war in Europe, Land of Mine is a real must-see.Final Say – A confronting, shocking and sometimes unbearably tense war drama, Land of Mine is a war film like none other and while it never pulls off a true emotionally resonate connection, this foreign language effort is well worth digging up and one of the more impressive war films of recent years.3 ½ games of fetch out of 5

This is a terrific film, albeit a bleak one, overall. The tone is set by the landscape and the cinematography, yet this windswept coastline and the farmland make for eerily beautiful scenery. Anyone who has ever completed recruit training will well understand the awesome authority an NCO wields. And in this case, the NCO definitely isn't on the same side as his 'recruits'. Carl, the Sergeant ('Feldwebel') wears British Army uniform that clearly marks him as someone who fought during the war with a parachute regiment. He has some anger management issues too. He's not someone to be messed with, in other words. And he's pretty handy with his fists, just in case the message was too subtle. Yet Carl's basic humanity shines through by the end of the film. As for the rest of the cast, all the characters are sympathetic and played for maximum intensity and realism. Much like the mines their characters are defusing, there's not a dud among them.

Some of my favorite films have been Danish films and this gem did not disappoint! It is a poignant and sad portrayal of the continuing tragedy of war even after WW2 had ended. Young Germans are forced to remove German mines from Denmark but we understand that Denmark also was a victim by having it's beaches loaded with 1.2 million mines...and they had to be removed but how to remove them in a humane way? Man's inhumanity to man and what a powerful story this movie tells. I loved every moment of it.