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A brilliant film that helped define a genre

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Possibly the most stupid WWII movie I have seen. Virtually everything about it is nonsense but the biggest plot fault, if you can even call it a plot, is that the whole thing hinges on them riding a train from France to Stuttgart. They have to fight their way into the train whilst it is in the station, yet the Nazis allow the train to depart and don't stop it en route. I think that's the stupidest part of the plot but I may be wrong. Everything else is pretty stupid too.If it was funny or a musical or something maybe this would be forgivable but there's no merit to this at all. It insults the intelligence of the audience. I won't even criticise the cast. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. They must have been paid well to make them take the script back out of the trash after first reading.

I honestly can not believe this movie is ever released. Unbelievable plot...check (a group of American soldiers wandering in Germany during wartime), Neverending rifle magazines...check, İdiot German soldiers running to bullets...check and so on. I read the reviews before watching the movie, I (thought)was ready for all this stuff. Because I am a real fan of WWII history I said "I can stand for the sake of my historical curiocity,At least I will watch costumes and gears and stuff like that". I was wrong. Especially WWII fans should stay away from this movie. I even didn't mention the equipment inconsistencies and historical faults. So do yourselves a favor, stay away from this movie...

I can't call this movie a total waste of time, because I was reading my email while suffering through it. I had to quit watching halfway through. I could take no more.Here's what to do if you know you are making a bad WW2 movie. Get actors that performed well in great WW2 productions, pay them whatever you have to in order to get them in your stinker, and hope they draw people in. Unfortunately, Tom Sizemore from "Saving Private Ryan" + Neal McDonough from "Band of Brothers" + Jürgen Prochnow from "Das Boot" + a bad movie, still = a bad movie.This movie was obviously made by people that know nothing about the military, and didn't care enough to consult with people that do. I knew the movie was in trouble when people kept calling a sergeant "sir" throughout the whole movie. Even if a character was supposed to be ignorant of this, the sergeant would have corrected him. How many times have we heard lines in a movie like, "Don't call me sir. I work for a living." You gotta love how worried they are about a "German" tank they encounter. They had to stop this tank before it overran their whole base, but they use their Bazooka rounds on the accompanying soldiers before FINALLY using it on the tank. This "Super Bazooka" is so powerful, that one shot at the tanks track blows the whole tank up in a huge fireball."The Guys" also have this capability to become things that usually take quite a bit of specialized training and time. Instant snipers. Instant spies.OK. I realize getting the right equipment and weapons is difficult, if not impossible. Still, if you are going to disguise what is probably a Russian T-34 tank as a German tank - at least make it look like an actual German tank, like they did in "Kelly's Heroes". The makers of this movie were content with just hanging pieces of whatever all over these tanks so they looked like anything besides what they actually were.The best equipment goof was the train engine seen in most of the close shots. A typical old steam locomotive usually seen in old westerns, and of the type used in the late 19th century, complete with "cow catcher", large stack and cab.This movie doesn't seem to know what it is trying to be either. Is it trying to be an alternate history, like "Inglourious Basterds"? That would be the only way to explain the Nazis having anything close to nuclear weapons capabilities. Is it trying to be like a graphic novel, with all the blood squirting, body-squishing tank scenes? Is it a comic book, with it's main antagonist adorned with some weird metal leg brace, walking cane, and serious (bad) comic book persona.The only thing that looks halfway decent is the uniforms. Some people have commented about wrong patches and insignia, but the overall look-and-feel seems right. OK. I've never heard of anyone in the RAF (Vinnie Jones character) wearing berets or calling themselves the British Air Force or anything other than RAF.A terrible movie with so much wrong with it that all I can say is that it MIGHT be better than "Ardennes Fury". Watch it for free if you want a good laugh.

I surmised from the title and cast that this movie would be a stinker, and it certainly was, but it did have its redeeming qualities, few as they may be. Yes the plot was profoundly absurd from every possible military and behavioral angle, the reliance on boring German clichés was preposterous and gratuitously executed, and the acting was generally abysmal, but it was crudely entertaining enough to rate a 2 out of 10. However, even ascribing this movie to pure fiction cannot forgive the producer and director for having Tom Sizemore repeat verbatim dialogue from Saving Private Ryan, or having the cast act alongside manikins and shoot numerous faceless enemies even as their named compatriots fall to every 100th bullet or 10th tank shell. I did find the atheist and possibly homosexual protagonist Nate (Chad Michael Collins) to be a hugely refreshing twist on the standard WWII hero yarn, the "Polack" (Diatchenko) a fun but implausible character, and Vinnie Jones (RAF dude, Brent Willoughby) to be great. Unfortunately, Beimier (Richard Sammel), the main SS antagonist, had to have some sort bionic leg and titanium-handled cane to make him detestable when in reality such people required no more than a pen. This movie is pure fiction at its worst.