So much average

Powerful

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

If you accept this as a so bad it's almost good kind of B movie then you may enjoy this low budget war movie. When the hero is the creepy kid from Desperate Housewives you know it can't be too serious a movie.First of all they couldn't even bother with an authentic looking country farmhouse in France. The white wooden house looks straight from the deep South.At first it was quite novel seeing women in a post D Day scenario - how often do you see that on screen. The actresses are a little too well groomed and unconvincing. They look out of place.There are many times when you just want to shout shoot him or just let him or her die they are so stupid. There is a ridiculous hand to hand boxing match that is just hilarious. The eventual nerd to Rambo situation is almost laugh out loud funny.Watch it as a comedy.

It is sad it really seems they had what they needed to make it good, but waaay to much talk and waaaay to predictable we have seen and heard every scene before. A shame the cast was pretty good and I will agree with Weller the German Officer played by Tino Struckmann did a great job, I saw him in other war films before. It would have been a better movie if they had made him the lead villain, at least he can carry a movie. The guy they god couldn't sell water in Africa. It was OK made but definitely left me wanting a lot more. The film feels like it was written by somebody who just patched scenes from other war film together, with no understanding of what war fans want to see. And what the hell with the 5 min opening montage I nearly walked away on that alone?!

A long time ago in a place far far away to the east of the US, a SS unit, spearheaded by an outdated assault gun(by golly, it is a Stug III!), attacks some US troops in what resembles a forest that is proclaimed to be in the North of France in World War II, but is probably located in the Apennines. Some make a stand and others flee, like a a bunch of soldiers of the elite Screaming Eagles 101st airborne division, which might have greatly offended any vet still living and make him die with the sheer outrage of it. No US airborne unit operated in the autumn in the North of France(they were held in reserve), but no SS units did either(they were pulled in reserve for the planned counter attack later in the year). So it is just a lot of baloney either way.Nor did the SS operate with a Stug III in what is obvious sandy camouflage, which nobody in his right mind would use in the green landscape of North West Europe. At least not for long considering the total air dominance by the allies. So the SS surrounds a group of American soldiers, which also includes two women of the medical staff, one a nurse and the other a doctor. This surely attests to the reach of the counter attack as women medical staff didn't operate near the front-lines, so we are talking about a deep advance into liberated territory with one assault gun, a bunch of captured American vehicles and what might have been a SDKFZ 250. Interestingly enough the SS officer later on tell us that they have been commanded to stay put. This makes it even a greater feat because it is an counter attack that is actually not a counter attack. It boggles the mind! It is a pity that this feat has gone completely unrecorded in history, but lucky we got this movie to tell us all about it. The story meanders a bit while the US soldiers liberate themselves, capture Germans, then get captured again, then escape again and so on. After a while you lose count of the many twists. It might even be called exasperating. The cast has no script to work with, unless it must be a early draft of Rambo, as one inexperienced private escapes the German clutches and goes on a killing spree. Which isn't really a big deal as the Germans are the most inadequate hapless bunch I have ever seen. Their main type of attack is aiming. They never got to the pulling the trigger part of their combat training. Or perhaps they are to dumb operate on their own and require a specific command to fire their rifles. Most likely they know they don't have any real ammo, for they just shoot blanks in this movie.Considering that these Germans managed to drive off the US forces earlier in the movie, this must say something about the quality of the US troops as well.The Germans are interestingly dressed in almost every possible piece of uniform that they had from 1940 onward. Just look at the boots! Almost every type is present. It is a feast of merriment for anyone who is somewhat interested in the German army. It looks to me that someone invited a bunch of re-enactors to play the Germans. Which must be true, because everyone, including the French dude, speaks English, which is lucky for the audience, because the Germans speak the most atrocious German I have ever heard. It isn't even close to German what they garble. Come on people, stick to English if you really can't speak a word of German, now you just look like the assorted bunch of pretending idiots that you are. Almost everything is wrong in this movie, which has a Captain who is far too old for a field commission, a nurse who wears hair that is far too long and voluminous for the period, Germans who are too stupid to aim straight, Germans armed with assault rifles and machine pistols that they never use in the fight scenes(lucky for Rambo), Germans adorning their vehicles with very big German flags(which helps with the bombing). And on and on goes the list of foolishness in this dreadful piece of nonsense. Is there any redeeming quality to this movie? Well it is at better than Orcs!Perhaps the movie would have been better with a Tiger tank in it? Who knows.

I don't rate the scenario!!! Read and keep in mind that. While not talking about the scenario...the rest is a big big crap. How the hell someone made something like that? The director has nothing to do with the army...and nobody has nothing to do with WW2. First there are no German tanks. Even if there are 1-2 tigers working in the world, or 4 PzKpfW IV, if you cannot afford them you can always use the 3D animators like everybody. But It's disgusting to use an American car with a big SS banner to simulate a Kubelwagen, or to use American tanks as German ones with cameo changed. Not saying about the first tank appearing in the movie which has a modern turret (made after 1990). Are you kidding me? Why not using Nasa Endeavour as Me-109 for example. And another thing: German Military police never worn hats, just helmets. And by God, you are making joke of history and German army. In Wehrmacht or SS etc you cannot find different colors in the soldier uniform. As I said...the first MP appearing has an very bad done plastic half-moon plate on his chest and feldgrau uniform, but kaki hat. MP were using helmets. ANd just some officers had the right to wear different colors in their uniform. Like trousers of one color and coat of another