Absolutely brilliant

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is not a great movie. To me, a great movie is one that has an emotional catch of some sort. This one is lacking.

This was more of a drama/entertainment film than a credible account of anything that did or could have happened. The acting was nothing special, and in fact a little disappointing, and definitely detracted from the story. It also focuses mostly on two characters throughout, which, even in other movies is generally avoided, as more characters are at least more developed even in supporting roles where they are not in this movie. However, it was well filmed with decent picture and sound editing. The sets were also fairly well designed and the costumes and props were good too. The end was also disappointing and somewhat abrupt. The original footage was a nice touch, though. There were some inconsistencies but nothing major. Hurtgen forest campaign was no picnic. I was there. Saw my buddies all torn up. Darn them krauts.

This movie portrays the common soldier in a very different light than many other war movies. In so called "War Epics", the soldiers are all courageous and heroic, willing to do anything to fight the enemy and save Europe. Their is perhaps one soldier in the squad who is a coward, the one who stands out compared to his allies bravery. But in this movie, the main character is a coward, or at least he thinks he is. He doesn't want to fight, and does whatever he can to save his skin. But when the Commander reads the Captain's report about Manning, he is right when he describes his innate ability to lead and his battlefield six sense. He shoots one of his own soldiers in the back, but by doing so he stops his squad from retreating and they successfully destroy their objective, an artillery gun, and save the lives of many other soldiers. This is a new, refreshing spin on the common soldier, and is perhaps more realistic than other views that are presented. The only detractor from the film is the weak music, which is thin and distracts one from enjoying the otherwise superb war movie.

in the movie when trumpets fade it talks about one mans story and how fears coming over him trying to get his new unit to come with to the Germany lines and how he gos up the ranks but starts to fall apart near the end because he knowing that doing this pushes would cause a kill for the us troops mannings know what he has to do but cant not do it because deads is coming for the us troops but after going though so many different battles he figures that he will do this job and at least try to live and get though what he has to do order to live from the Germany forces i think it was a great movies because it show all different thins about how to try to live thoughts very bad times and how a Lt. can fell like he is going to break but get ups the cougar and dos keeps his mission and dos what he has to do for the man that he is protesting