Assault on Hill 400

Best thing the producers did was use Eastern Costume for the wardrobe or this film would have a 2/10 rating. I would expect better from an Asylum movie by now. Just grabbing a couple veteran actors is not enough to overcome bland script and poor special effects. Set locations were also very bad along with camera work. Cinematography is almost non existent save for one scene opener showing the hills with some very dense low fog. As far as the "battle sequences", not in any way plausible. So much for the crack German troops that were mentioned by the general with his helmet on in the HQ. Only other + was shooting on Red Digital. Thumbs down!

The fact that "well trained and resupplied German soldiers" (not the weak Polish kind, as the General described them), can be seen shooting a Thompson at 5:38 (behind the German holding an MP40), and another one shooting a Grease gun at around 5:59 (hiding behind the tree) made me giggle. If they are what the General describes, then there's no need for them to use US weapons. Not to mention the poor tactics, use of ranks, lingo, and what not.

Also, this movie only portrays what seems to be a incomplete squad from 2nd Rangers. Some of the roles in the squad seem to be replaced by ordinary riflemen. It should be mentioned that there were at least 457 enlisted men and 27 officers from 2nd Rangers who went up that hill. And a whole bunch of infantry before them, sustaining a minimum of 16,000 casualties.

It's inaccurate, the acting is stale. I can't say much good about this movie. This movie clearly missed out on military advisors, and perhaps some acting classes.

How to do a better job on this production?

First, hire a military consultant. That would get by the majority of the issues.

Next, hiring an acting coach. Not a really expensive one. Maybe a director from the Little Theater of east New Jersey.

Taking these two steps would great enhance the production value of this movie.

Then the next step would be to follow just a little of the historical facts associated with this battle.

This film is almost a disservice to the memory of the heroes that fought in this battle.

Dialogue is awful, could could have used a little polishing.

If nothing else I learned to never watch a film directed by this guy.

Saw this movie listed with a couple of actors I like thought it might be a fun movie to watch. This was an insult to my father and my uncles who fought in the second world war. Me and my dad used to watch all the old gung ho, American movies From World War II and some of those were really cheesy and we loved them but this is an insult for the intelligence to people firing rifles with the bolts not even moving machine guns bullet belts aren't even moving while firing a nurse with really bad German accent. I would never recommend this movie to anyone. It is a total waste of time. There are so many better movies out there to watch than this one, particularly on the subject of World War II.

After managing to not gag (with some effort) at the cliche'd lines being uttered during the innitial brief of the mission near start of the film, i could watch no more due to the annoying cameraman following the platoon clicking his camera shutter loud enough to drown out the lines being uttered by the overly talkative patrol moving thru the woods, presumably expecting to be attacked at any time from their stances, but never in a million years expecting to be ambushed behind enemy lines from their incescant talking.

Since i could'nt watch it further in disgust at known actors putting their name to an asylum movie as much as the annoyance at the film itself i probably shouldnt have wrote a review, but thought i may as well in hope people who like to make their own minds up about how bad a movie is like me may think twice about actually bothering if i described how far i got into the movie before gave up and wished i had taken notice of the reviews mysel in this preticular case ;P.