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Great Film overall

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

being very interested in history, i tried to check this movie out. there aren't that many ww1 movies out there (all the focus is for some reason on ww2), so i was a little excited. the movie is based on a true story about a group of American soldiers, that got isolated in a wood on the western front. i don't know how well it keeps up with actual events, but i guess that they made room for some action scenes (it is a war movie after all). one of the things i normally criticize on a war movie, that show us the perspective from the allies, is the "stupid and easy killed" German soldiers (the German army were actually in both world wars a dangerous fighting force). but as far as i know, the Germans lost many men in the woods, so i will go with their high losses. a hilarious thing is the German yelling in the fight scenes. its the same guy yelling the same insults (in bad spoken German) all the time, its really funny to hear if you speak German. all in all its really clear to see that it is a TV movie, so don't expect to get more then that. it has the special atmosphere that a TV movie has. it feels a little cheap, a little cheesy, but you enjoy it anyway. and so is it for this movie. sometime it feels to cheap and cheesy, but you will enjoy it. go check it out, if you have some hours to kill.

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.

My God, what an incredible movie it is! Reminded me so much of the similar scene in Mel Gibson's movie "We were Soldiers" when "the Company is not lost, they're just cut off" And the other scene in Pearl Harbour when the British officer says to Ben Affleck "If all Americans are like you, then God help the nation that goes to war with America!Put all 3 movies together and you would have enough BULLSHIT to fertilise the entire Sahara Desert.The story of the cut-off Battalion may be real enough but the movie could have done without all that American preachy jingoistic propaganda attached to it. There were audible groans in the cinema during the above-mentioned scene in Pearl Harbour (no kidding either) The Lost Battalion however is really in a class of its own …."Americans think they are unbeatable…inspired bravery…. " I actually cringed and damn near puked at all the swill being spewed out throughout this diarrhoeic disaster (the movie that is) The fighting scenes were well made (3 stars for that) but if the script is manure, then wrapped even in brightly coloured ribbons, it is still manure. The writer, James Carabatsos, also wrote those other screamers…Hamburger Hill, No Mercy , Heartbreak Ridge. Someone, please shoot him before he writes any more such garbage.The Director, Russell Mulcahy is an Australian too. God, the shame!!!

We are bombarded with movies that show us the amazing skills and qualities of the American soldier, his bravery, determination etc. I'm not trying to deny these facts, but wouldn't it be nice to see, from time to time, a movie about the "others".i mean, they are humans too. I'm kind of tired of seeing the Americans, "good guys" off-course, kicking the asses of everybody. "Enemy at the gates" is an example of a war movie that, despite his lack of American heroes, still had a certain success. So, dear guys from Hollywood, it is possible...As for this movie, i think the words "cliche" or "kitsch" describe it best. i really had to make huge efforts to watch it till the end. same clichés about the ruthless general that send his mens in impossible missions but they fight like lions and achieve victory, gaining the admiration and respect of the enemy and the gratitude of their comrades blablabla. if you really have time to lose, watch this movie. It's not much worse than the other American war movies.