Too much of everything

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

This was an awesome independent film, really well made and well acted. I loved the story absolutely original and well thought out. The lead Tino Struckmann did a fantastic job leading this film, a great supporting cast, some well known faces compliments Struckmann's performance. But Struckmann belongs in great studio films to really shine and when Hollywood gets a look at him, I know he will get a chance to be a great star. Great movie, if you are a war film fan you must see. I absolutely do not understand some of the negative reviews they are definitely not merited. it is not Saving Private Ryan but on an Indie budget its pretty damn good.

I have to say I do not feel the rough critique of this film justified. Sure it is an Indie film and not of a million dollar budget. but they put a lot of effort into it, a lot of historic facts and nice war scenes, The tanks and guns were real not fake CGI and they made a serious effort here. I truly enjoyed it and watched it several times, there are some really good points to it, and the acting was solid on all parts. And of all the war films I have seen this is absolutely one of the better ones. And as film fans we should acknowledge those of smaller budgets not just run them over because they did not have a studio budget. solid story line and subplots they get a thumb up.

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.

The description on the DVD box looked promising, but after the open war scene (must have used 2/3 of the total budget) this movie went downhill within minutes. I can't honestly review this movie because I only saw about 45 minutes of it. The acting was so bad that I had to stop it. I paid $1 to rent it and feel completely ripped off. How does a movie this bad get released? The script was juvenile and the "dramatic" acting and delivery of the actors was horrible. The scenery in the opening of the movie was the only thing that held my interest for all of about five minutes. No military adviser was on set, nothing I saw was even close to authentic. One of the Russian officers looked and acted like a carnival side-show drop-out. Don't rent it for a dollar and leave it in the bargain at WalMart.