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Absolutely Fantastic

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

A Battalion is lost in the Argonne in this amazing movie with action and wits. With everyone falling in love with the soldiers and seeing World War 1 for what it really is. This is an all around great movie that should go down as one of the best movies of the 2000s that everyone should watch.

If you can get past the melting-pot platoon clichés, there's a pretty decent movie here. The Lost Battalion tells the story of a unit of American GIs who advance well beyond their support into German-held territory in October, 1918. TLB mixes some Paths of Glory with Saving Private Ryan, but manages to extol the virtues of polyglot GIs in a supremely difficult position: Will they hold together while taking fire from superior forces in the front and callous commanders in the rear?At 90 minutes, the movie is over almost before you really get into it. The narrative spans about six days in the life of 600 men--reduced to barely 200 by the end of the engagement--who act as a "thorn in the side" of a larger, Prussian-led force in the Argonne Forest. They're abandoned by their generals as they make the mistake of advancing to where they're supposed to go, and then having the bad taste not to flee when their support bugs out on both flanks. The movie's strength is how it portrays its clichés--Hey, these aren't clichés about class distinction and combat--this stuff was real! It's a much more watered down type of combat than you would find on the big screen, but the blood and guts--and there's a lot spilled here--doesn't get in the way of watching blue bloods find out what "Italian, Irish, Jew, and Pollack gangsters" can do when they're led well by field-grade officers, and are being taunted and insulted by Prussians and their aristocratic mind-set.Congratulations to the filmmakers! Look for The Lost Battalion on the History Channel or A&E. Watch this and feel proud for more than our men in arms. Feel proud for our society at its best.

In 1918 in World War I, in the Meuse-Argonne Sector in France, the former New York lawyer and Major Charles White Whittlesey (Rick Schroder) is assigned by Gen. Robert Alexander (Michael Brandon) to a massive suicidal attack against the German forces in the Argonne Forest with his five hundred men battalion. However, the forces supposed to be giving support through the flanks retreat and the communications with the headquarter of the 77th American Division are cut. Major Wittlesey holds his position with his men, mostly Irish, Polish, Italian and Jew gangsters from New York, surrounded by the German army. Without food, water, ammunition and medical supplies, only two hundred men survive after five days of siege.Based on a true event, "The Lost Battalion" is a great tale of bravery and courage. I do not know how accurate the facts are displayed, but I liked this movie very much. The battle scenes are very gore and realistic, in a war of trenches and bayonets, and the actors have great performances, being impossible to highlight an individual acting. Just as a curiosity, this film does not have any actress, only men in the cast. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "O Último Batalhão" ("The Last Battalion")

After watching this movie I was honestly disappointed - not because of the actors, story or directing - I was disappointed by this film advertisements.The trailers were suggesting that the battalion "have chosen the third way out" other than surrender or die (Polish infos were even misguiding that they had the choice between being killed by own artillery or German guns, they even translated the title wrong as "misplaced battalion"). This have tickled the right spot and I bought the movie.The disappointment started when I realized that the third way is to just sit down and count dead bodies followed by sitting down and counting dead bodies... Then I began to think "hey, this story can't be that simple... I bet this clever officer will find some cunning way to save what left of his troops". Well, he didn't, they were just sitting and waiting for something to happen. And so was I.The story was based on real events of World War I, so the writers couldn't make much use of their imagination, but even thought I found this movie really unchallenging and even a little bit boring. And as I wrote in the first place - it isn't fault of actors, writers or director - their marketing people have raised my expectations high above the level that this movie could cope with.