Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Lawbolisted Powerful

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

petercohen-82116 I found it a most compelling film, With strong historic content. The producers really have understood this terribly period and with all the small subtleties and dangers. I was very impressed and can only recommend it. I also very much enjoyed the lead actors I found all in this film did a very good job. there are some very specific details worth watching out for. Especially I enjoyed the scene with Struckmann and a German Sergeant, where his lack of returning the Nazi salute shows his commitment to soldiering and not to the Nazi regime. There are many more little pieces of historic tidbits worth looking for. true some of the digital parts in the beginning could have been done better but overall a great little film.

jlthornb51 Gifted director Jerry Buteyn brings to screen an epic Second World War drama that manages to breathe new life into films of this sort. Stunning panoramas of terrific battles are amazing in their intensity and realistically staged, highlighted by a magnificent music score. Careful attention has been paid to uniforms and weapons, with extreme care taken with historical detail. Some of the battle sequences, especially those involving armor and aircraft, are especially breathtaking. Yet, despite being a large scale film, it is indeed the very human aspects of the superb screenplay that holds everything together. A fine cast brings life to characters who are quite real in their humanity and struggling to face incredible challenges for the sake of all they hold dear. The performance of the great Michael Berryman as a Soviet officer is one of his best in years. With tremendous scope and special effects but retaining a focus on the humanity involved, this is one of the finest WWII films of the past decade.

jvdesuit1 What's wrong with this movie? I don't know. Yes it's not a super production costing 100million+$. SO what?The aim of this movie is to show us how compromise was at work at the end of WWII. Let's read what Wikipedia says of the Exiled Polish government during that period and how the occidental allies acted:...In April 1943, the Germans announced that they had discovered at Katyn Wood, near Smolensk, Russia, mass graves of 10,000 Polish officers(the German investigation later found 4,443 bodies who had been taken prisoner in 1939 and murdered by the Soviets. The Soviet government said that the Germans had fabricated the discovery. The other Allied governments, for diplomatic reasons, formally accepted this; the Polish Government in Exile refused to do so......InNovember 1944, despite his mistrust of the Soviets, Mikołajczyk resigned to return to Poland and take office in the Provisional Government of National Unity, a new government established under the auspices of the Soviet occupation authorities comprising his faction and much of the old Provisional Government. Many Polish exiles opposed this action, believing that this government was a façade for the establishment of Communist rule in Poland. This view was later proved correct in 1947, when Mikołajczyk's People's Party was defeated in an election which was later shown to have been fraudulent. The Communist- dominated bloc was credited with over 80 percent of the vote, a result that was only obtained through large-scale falsification. The opposition claimed it would have won in a landslide had the election been honest. Mikołajczyk, who would have likely become prime minister had the election been truly free, left Poland again in April 1947, this time never to return.Meanwhile the Polish Government in Exile had maintained its existence, but France on 29 June 1945,then the United States and United Kingdom on July 5, 1945 withdrew their recognition...This being quoted what is shown on the movie is also plausible. The USSR government was and still is no better than the Nazi one and many other governments still in power. And that's the subject of the film showing how two men can change their appreciation of their situation in view of a war crime. The acting is perfect and the movie does not need super special effects to put this situation into perspective. Maybe there are 52 stars on the American flag, so what? Great movie directors have had anachronism and errors in masterpieces, did we consider these to be rubbish? Of course not.This movie is not a cult one obviously, but it is a movie worth viewing with a brilliant musical score which is like a huge requiem in the background mourning a beginning friendship harshly interrupted, an unrealized love union due to the greed for power and domination of the world of two blocks. Through Klaus and Andrew, it is us the viewers who are personified and presented as the puppets of governments and ideologues pretending to protect us but who don't.

bravesfan35 I am a big fan of war movies but this one is a complete waste of time. Even though I saw how bad of a review it got, I checked it out anyway to see if it lived up to the poor rating. Needless to say, it did. The acting was horrible. There was a scene where a German soldier slaps a guy and it was so fake, it was almost in slow motion. I understand this was a low budget film but that's no excuse. There are many films that were low budget that became successful like Rocky, Juno, Slumdog Millionaire, The Blair Witch Project, Bruce Lee's "Enter The Dragon", and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. This film makes no effort at keeping viewers on the edge of their seats. Rather, it makes them fall asleep in their chair.