Overrated and overhyped

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Four American soldiers escape after the Germans massacre POW early in the Battle of the Bulge. They rescue a British flyer who has important information. The five men try to return back to the Allied lines through hostile territories.It's a pretty simple story for most of the movie. The characters are written with some interesting personalities. However the actors can't exceed what's on the page. They just don't have the power to fill the screen. Corbin Allred probably comes the closest to something great. At the end of the day, this is a low budget affair. The big action scenes in the last 15 minutes probably ate up most of the money. It would be great to see some first rate actors take up these roles instead.

I had never heard of this film, it was shown on TV on one of the lower end movie channels in the early hours. Because of the nature of the movie channel I was expecting a low budget, badly dubbed, foreign film, I could not have been more pleasantly surprised .... it was a high quality, English language film with good acting and expert directing. How historically accurate it is I would not know, and to be honest do not really care, it entertained me from beginning to end, which at the end of the day, is really all a film is supposed to do. It told a good story in an intelligent and watchable way and did not have to rely on expensive computer generated special effects or lashings violence and/or sex scenes to keep ones attention throughout.

This movie actually sailed underneath the radar for me when it was released, as I had never heard of it until I seen it on Netflix, but long story short I'm glad I came across this. The opening scenes start out at the Malmedy massacre in WW II, where a small group of US soldiers manage to escape the slaughter. But, the hiccup in that fact is that they also happen to be behind enemy lines so they were essentially out of the frying pan and into the fire so to speak. While trying to navigate back they stumble across a downed Royal Air Force Pilot who is carrying vital intel that they must get back to the Allied Forces.The characters, while predictable and cheesy at times, were likable in my opinion. I liked their interactions even though at some points it seemed too contrived or forced to be really believable. But while the cast are not a well known group, I liked the work they did. To get a good mind set of this type of movie, think of it as a movie more about characters that happen to be in WW2 rather than a straight up WW2 movie. This movie is more character driven and the hook is that you wait to see if they make it or not. There are even some moral interactions between them and a few Nazis. While its been done before it was still and interesting aspect. Don't expect them to storm the enemy lines yelling "git some" while carrying 60lb machine guns while Nazi body parts and dirt coat the camera lenses. They are outnumbered and out gunned and rely on stealth through 95% of the movie. They do manage to kick some ass at points when the action picks up, but this is not an action driven movie.As far as action goes, this movie isn't for everyone. If you're expecting typical Hollywood guts, butts, and elbows flying across the screen this is not your flick. It is PG-13, which to be honest, is a welcome relief considering a lot of war movies rely too much on the gore. We don't need to know what happens to the human body when hit with a grenade in close up detail. We know what happens. We've seen it countless times in past movies. While some people do get shot and blown up in this movie you never actually see those things depicted in a gory mist, just explosions and squibs. If your looking for history buff accuracies you will also be disappointed as this story is more fiction based with fictional characters and moments simply inspired by some real stuff thrown into it. It has factual "inspirations" but don't expect details fine tuned down to microscopic levels. This movie was limited budget and on that note they did an admirable job. This is not Band of Brothers, or Saving Private Ryan that tell the story in hours and hours...Saints and Soldiers had little time and money to tell a story in an hour or so and did so respectably. To me this movie skims the boundaries between B Movie and A Movie. You can tell if they had more resources and time, certain aspects could have pushed this movie to be a bit better. I was still impressed and enjoyed it however, and I have high respect for what they managed to accomplish. If you want a good short story about some soldiers just trying to survive and finish a mission that type of mind set will make it more enjoyable.

This movie sucks in all respects: It has a dull, boring and predictable story. Its low budget becomes apparent throughout the movie and does not allow to make up the deficits of the story by means of good action.One of it's anchors is hypocritical, religious nonsense.The characters are either stereotypic or totally unrealistic in order to serve the religiously influenced storyline.It is full of errors - related to the movie itself as well as the "real events" it is supposed to be based on.Anyone, who speaks decent German, will hardly be able to stand the horrible language skills of the German figures without bursting into laughter, which isn't quite a desirable mood for a wannabe serious and emotionally moving movie.