It is always amazing how people can be fooled by style, or how they think a film that jives with their own anti-war views is therefore great. This is not even a good movie.
The plot, such as it is, is in bits and pieces, episodic and disjointed. There are no combat scenes. It is unrelentingly dismal with one in-your-face anti-war scene after another. Hey, there's the scene where the soldiers prove how brutalized they've become by shooting a dog. Hey, there's the scene at the end of the U.S. soldier and Soviet soldier killing each other in bombed out Berlin. No kidding.
If war is always so bad, WHAT ABOUT THE NAZI'S CONCENTRATION AND DEATH CAMPS American and Soviet soldiers liberated?? But no, this lousy movie won't show how WW II was necessary to stop evil.
The movie is a lie, and nonsense. Sure war is terrible, but sometimes it is needed, and it sure was needed against Hitler and Nazism.
The plot, such as it is, is in bits and pieces, episodic and disjointed. There are no combat scenes. It is unrelentingly dismal with one in-your-face anti-war scene after another. Hey, there's the scene where the soldiers prove how brutalized they've become by shooting a dog. Hey, there's the scene at the end of the U.S. soldier and Soviet soldier killing each other in bombed out Berlin. No kidding.
If war is always so bad, WHAT ABOUT THE NAZI'S CONCENTRATION AND DEATH CAMPS American and Soviet soldiers liberated?? But no, this lousy movie won't show how WW II was necessary to stop evil.
The movie is a lie, and nonsense. Sure war is terrible, but sometimes it is needed, and it sure was needed against Hitler and Nazism.