being very interested in history, i tried to check this movie out. there aren't that many ww1 movies out there (all the focus is for some reason on ww2), so i was a little excited. the movie is based on a true story about a group of American soldiers, that got isolated in a wood on the western front. i don't know how well it keeps up with actual events, but i guess that they made room for some action scenes (it is a war movie after all). one of the things i normally criticize on a war movie, that show us the perspective from the allies, is the "stupid and easy killed" German soldiers (the German army were actually in both world wars a dangerous fighting force). but as far as i know, the Germans lost many men in the woods, so i will go with their high losses. a hilarious thing is the German yelling in the fight scenes. its the same guy yelling the same insults (in bad spoken German) all the time, its really funny to hear if you speak German. all in all its really clear to see that it is a TV movie, so don't expect to get more then that. it has the special atmosphere that a TV movie has. it feels a little cheap, a little cheesy, but you enjoy it anyway. and so is it for this movie. sometime it feels to cheap and cheesy, but you will enjoy it. go check it out, if you have some hours to kill.
Review of The Lost Battalion
