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How do you fight a war after landing in Normandy and not have a scratch on the tank, tents are clean and look new, helmets without a scratch.

This is the 3rd flop I've seen this year from Justin Lee. Who puts up the money for this garbage? Does he not know how to write a screenplay or direct his actors? I guess this is the result when all your experience in writing and directing is TV series. At least give one of those hats to a professional that can teach you something before you try to do it all yourself when taking on a full length feature film and make the same mistakes over and over every time. Maybe then one of your films may get a rating higher than a 5.

This once again was another long dragged out dumb story that goes nowhere with lousy pacing and boring extended scenes that make you yawn. The dialogue was just non-stop insignificant garble. The grenade effects were lame little ant-hill explosions. The actors voices were either too loud or barely legible. Even the actors looked bored. And enough with the slow motion scenes, it's so 1980's.

This film should have been edited down to a 30 min TV film. A generous 2/10 for the cinematography and war sets (albeit minimal).

The movie had potential. Other than Benson the actors are unknowns, but they showed promise. The story was basic but doable. The two technical consultants should refund their salaries, it was that bad. If this had been done by a college level fine arts student it would be lauded as a good effort. But its not. Its a waste of time, money and talent. Its too obviously a low budget film. Other reviewers have pointed out errors in weather, and lack of dirt on equipment and people. I have been a casual student of war fof quite some time, and before this i have never seen German troops wearing bandanas to hide their faces. Maybe it makes sense for the sniper, but not for anyone else. Unless the producer only had one person qualified to play the German part, and they had to hide his face.

Really horrible script and storyline. Amazing how all the soldiers in the movie, Axis and Allied, had nearly spotless uniforms. Even the mechanized equipment was spotless without damage or even a smudge of dirt.

Avoid this movie-

Army Rangers are supposed to be fit, not fat. Send 3 soldiers to attack a fuel depot? Really? No German SS soldier can aim and shoot ? The German soldiers take cover behind fuel drums?

Terrible plot, awful acting, entirely unbelievable, festooned with plot holes, littered with poor cliches...it doesn't get much worse.

Not worth watching

Everyone in this movie is 40-50 years old. The movie is set in the Hurtgen forest in December 1944 but the looks more like august 1944: there are green leaves on the trees and weeds everywhere. The story is stiff and concocted. Uniforms are fairly authentic except when there seems to be a Wehrmacht soldier hanging out with SS troopers in SS camo. All these Nazis are 50 years old. Find some actors under 20 FFS already. Avoid this film at all costs.

This is a story that needed to be told. Too many comments critiquing this film are obviously missing the message and the story that was told. Seems like too many snowflakes that are unable to handle the fact that war is gruesome, ugly, and unforgiving and have little to no respect for those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Recommend you watch.

Very, Very Poor movie. High school level acting. Action scenes, poor. Any idiot that thinks a mortar round explodes like shown here knows nothing about reality. Weapon fire is a joke, from sound to recoil, the Thompson was never on full auto, which anyone would have done. If there was a book it had to be better.

It's a WWII. I watched until a soldier said, "They didn't get us at Normandy, they didn't get us in Nam". What! Nam? Are you kidding me? Terrible writing all through. And two female medics on the front line. Geez.

I love a good war flick so I tend to forgive budget issues, which this one clearly had. It suffers mostly from being the "three guys stuck in the wilderness" trope that lets the producers avoid expansive scenes they don't have the budget for, but, as those films tend to do, this one bogs down real quick.

25 minuts before i understod that this was a waste of time... Really poor!!

So to start of the idea is kinda fun, but was proly made it basicly looked like a low Budget Bollywood film with only the uniforms being good. However half of the movie was boring, the battle Scene were lame and unrealistic... for example 3 Germans following 2 americans who are running in a straight line 3 Germans throw there grenades, yes there grenades at open Targets that are Maybe 15mn away and These grenades land next to them... an Explosion happens that was smaller then my 2 Euro Firework, all 3 of These grenades landed next to them and Nothing happend, more of These low Budget explosions accure mortar Shells for example like litearly nothin

There are way more scence like this and belief me, if you are a fan of history in General you are gonna cry the intire movie..... dont watch it.... spend your time watching paint dry, its more worth it than watching this garbage movie

If you are stickler for cultural accuracy, you likely will not appreciate this film. The concept of the modern therapeutic culture did not exist in in 1944. There was no Prozac or Paxil and no one other than Hollywood starlets and upper middle class Manhattan socialites had a therapist. Now please, don't get me wrong. I in no way wish to diminish the emotional stress or trauma of combat veterans. Not at all. Never. But this film is a seemingly endless group therapy session between Army Rangers while in a combat setting, a more improbable scenario than which I cannot imagine and which is best exemplified by a scene in which Rangers who have volunteered for a seeming suicide mission, facing an outflanking German counteroffensive, sit loading rifle magazines at a desultory pace, discussing, with no urgency, their fears and motivations. These are the ways in which modern, non-military men would behave. But in this film, such men are transported back to 1944 for a field group therapy session. Not my cup of tea.

Some of the main character's acting was actually better then expected for a low budget movie.... but the historical accuracy made me cringe so hard and so often that my fitbit thought I ran a marathon. A ranger unit landing at D-day supposedly all being from the same high school football team is just not how it worked. They would have all met for the first time in training. Far worse, is when they come up behind German mortar unit... with absolute surprise, in what world would you lob a grenade and hope for the best versus just shooting them in the back? I had to stop it after that scene because I was getting angry.

...and the acting comes across as bad, but that's because the script is so terrible that even the best actors in all of human history wouldn't have been able to bring any life to the characters.

After finding the opening scene shaky in a number of ways, I kept watching, and every few minutes thinking, This has to get better. But it actually got worse, and I just couldn't take any more after 25 minutes.

I could go on with a litany of critical points, but I'm so astounded that this movie was released, in any form, that my head would explode from thinking about it. Was this Justin Lee guy actually given money to make anything else after creating such an embarrassingly bad disaster as this movie is?