I am a WWII buff and have been for most of my 69 years. This movie was a big disappointment, despite the talented actors doing a pretty good job with the story and script they were trashing history with. In this day and age where writers are too lazy to even research and write accurate stories of events, it is a shame. Especially since we have so many new research tools at our fingertips compared with the fifties and sixties when more accurate WWII flicks were in their heyday. Of course, the forties were loaded with propaganda because we were either in the war or recently finished with it and trying to counter red propaganda.
The Germans were never even close to setting off an atom bomb. Certainly the allies were worried about that possibility and the Germans certainly were trying at various times during the war to develop the thing, but they blew their chances when they imprisoned, shot, or exiled the majority of their scientific talent in not only Germany but conquered eastern block nations. They just basically shot themselves in the foot when they stopped the Jews from participating. The A bomb program was so unorganized, fragmented, and doomed from the start, (Imagine this. Goring was actually put in charge near the beginning) that it never had a prayer of beating the allies. The movie infers that we not only stopped them by rescuing the brains of their efforts, but that it made some kind of difference as to whether we could accomplish the bomb ourselves without him. Hogwash and a terribly irresponsible revision of history by the story tellers. Other reviewers have pointed out the absurdness of ending up with an American, a Russian, and a Brit working together. The British worked with us on the bomb in the US and the Russians had several successful spies working on the Manhattan project feeding them nearly everything anyway.
A high ranking German officer wearing a horrific brace that is meant to be menacing I suppose. How likely is it that he would have spikes protruding on the inside where they could catch on the inside of his other leg and eventually cripple him completely. What a comic book idea that one was. What are the odds of him being everywhere they went, even beating the train to Stuttgart ahead of them. Neat too that he happened to be at the Opera for the same performance our hero had to attend. They managed do this all this as a fighting group instead of a lone infiltrating spy which is the only way to pull that off. They even did it without speaking German, other that a few WWII movie cliché quotes.... That tank crushing that soldiers head and body made me choke on my popcorn though. I guess you can file that one under sensationalism.
The Germans were never even close to setting off an atom bomb. Certainly the allies were worried about that possibility and the Germans certainly were trying at various times during the war to develop the thing, but they blew their chances when they imprisoned, shot, or exiled the majority of their scientific talent in not only Germany but conquered eastern block nations. They just basically shot themselves in the foot when they stopped the Jews from participating. The A bomb program was so unorganized, fragmented, and doomed from the start, (Imagine this. Goring was actually put in charge near the beginning) that it never had a prayer of beating the allies. The movie infers that we not only stopped them by rescuing the brains of their efforts, but that it made some kind of difference as to whether we could accomplish the bomb ourselves without him. Hogwash and a terribly irresponsible revision of history by the story tellers. Other reviewers have pointed out the absurdness of ending up with an American, a Russian, and a Brit working together. The British worked with us on the bomb in the US and the Russians had several successful spies working on the Manhattan project feeding them nearly everything anyway.
A high ranking German officer wearing a horrific brace that is meant to be menacing I suppose. How likely is it that he would have spikes protruding on the inside where they could catch on the inside of his other leg and eventually cripple him completely. What a comic book idea that one was. What are the odds of him being everywhere they went, even beating the train to Stuttgart ahead of them. Neat too that he happened to be at the Opera for the same performance our hero had to attend. They managed do this all this as a fighting group instead of a lone infiltrating spy which is the only way to pull that off. They even did it without speaking German, other that a few WWII movie cliché quotes.... That tank crushing that soldiers head and body made me choke on my popcorn though. I guess you can file that one under sensationalism.