The first must-see film of the year.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Look at all the negative reviews, these are by people who I doubt really watched the film. They are SJW who want to attack something because it shows history from a different light. The filmmaker did something the vast majority of people won't do, take on a controversial subject from a different angle. This movie is about a soldier in the LSSAH who starts off fighting to defend his nation, but has a change of heart. The reason I say the reviewers never watched the movie, is because the director clearly injects a modern PC narrative regarding the Waffen SS, that they killed innocents, and committed war crimes. It even has the obligatory Gestapo hunting Jews in hiding, that sickens the man character, and leaves him with a sense of guilt. All sides were guilty of crimes in WW2, this film explores that when others don't.

Considering this film was made on nearly no budged written, directed, cut and the score composed by the same director I found myself pleasantly surprised by this film, While i found the first 20 mins of the film a bit lackluster i found that the film really picked up towards the middle and end where the story and characters really take shape. the film ends with a great message that I haven't seen as strongly in any other war movie iv'e watched. Most war movies and documentaries really try to hammer into you the '"Good Guys vs The Evil Bad Guys" idea completely suppressing the fact that at the end of the day these "Evil Bad Guys" were human too which overall i found a very refreshing watch and great message for the film.

While it wasn't as seamless a movie as I'd normally like. It was a good portrayal. There were a few language issues and this movie would have been excellent in true languages, fluent German is what I kept wanting to hear and it's honestly the only reason it took me 3 days to watch. The film itself was in high quality and pleasing to look at. Not to mention the message was important. You who judge against these men are the trash, not them. The sacrifice made by the German soldiers to defend their homes and their homeland, not to mention, arguably rid the world of an even worse regime in Russia - while we the US called Russia (40 million killed in genocide, much more than Germany) - our Ally is completely stupid. This movie reminds us that we are looking at this all wrong. Stop looking at the political case and start looking at the human one. Deep and powerful. Highly recommend. once they put the true languages in. LOL It'll be on my shelf.

I watched this movie and yes the acting could have been better, but the gear was pretty realistic, Yeah the Tanks were cover over T55's but they tried to use the correct gear for the Germans, Russians and Americans, which is more than a lot of war movies have done. The savagery shown especially on the eastern front the Germans shooting wounded Russians did happen quite a lot, and the Soviets especially the NKVD would do the same to Germans. Less than 10,000 Germans came back from Soviet Captivity. The movie shows an individual soldier perspective and the relations to "his Kamaraden". The movie shows a soldier fighting for his friends and no longer for the cause.