Bullets going through a machine gun belt that obviously hadn't been fired. Men falling dead before they had been shot. Poor writing and directing. Was there a military advisor for this film? If so, they should never work on a WWII movie ever again. The plot had a chance but it was executed poorly. Could have been a great movie given the subject matter but it never reached its potential. In one scene the lieutenant tells his men to take up defensive positions as they begin a charge towards the enemy. How is charging towards the enemy a defensive position? This was only one example of the poor script writing, producing and directing. Towards the end, the General Patton character says, "some say patriotism is dying for your country, let's go make patriots out of those Germans." Patron's actual quote is, Patton : "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." At least get that right.
