Nice effects though.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Many reviews of this movie quite correctly point out clichéd characters & dialog and laughable 'action' sequences. These are quite true. Many also point out some degree of authenticity with equipment and this is also true to a point with the exception of a couple of fairly glaring errors.The dreaded V3 this rag tag band are to find isn't a V-3 in the first instance. It's a normal (if gargantuan) German rail gun. Some reviewers have pointed this out, but then wax long & lyrical over the fact that it isn't a fixed weapon. The actual V3 was a fixed weapon, dug into a hillside but from a visual look would have been rather boring.The use of the German vehicles is both welcome and grating. The half-track is quite authentic (probably one of the Czech rebuilds) as is the PzKpfw III. Two problems arise here. The German troops milling around wear SS camouflage and other accoutrements, the half- track on the other hand has a Wehrmacht licence plate. Possible, but improbable. The second issue is the Panzer III. We're told the movie is set in 1944 and the SS troops are, in some instances, armed with StG 44 assault rifles applicable to the timeframe. Why then are these elite troops saddled with an old Panzer? Produced in 1942/3, the Ausf M variant was most definitely a second line vehicle by this time and hardly the equipment of an SS unit.Overall, one is reminded of the poorly made war movies of the 70s and 80s. Clichéd dialog, cookie-cutter characters and laughable scenarios.Goss and Lundgren play good roles, some of their squad are likable types, although Noah Sagan's character Sgt Chambers would, I suspect, have been spending the war in Leavenworth rather than the front lines, given his complete lack of even the most basic military courtesy. How this whining know-it-all made it through basic, let alone achieve Sergeant is quite beyond me.Mickey Rourke's 'character' (rather apt really) is a complete joke. Allegedly a colonel with WWI service, his personalised take on the concept is an insult to any officer rank and makes Duvall's character in Apocalypse Now seem like a graduate of West Point. As others have pointed out, if this laughable buffoon would have rolled into an officers' briefing with other ranks of his own level or above, he would more than likely be laughed out the door.In closing, the ghost of Michael Dudikoff is alive and well.

Sometimes splitting the difference leaves you with a tepid, muddled result. That's what happened here, I think. It seems like they wanted to do both a gritty, emotional war movie, but also a light hearted, funny, and witty action movie. What they ended up with, however, was a flimsy, boring, and wholly uninspiring story. The lack of a solid direction trickled down from the author, though the producers and director, and all the way down to the actors. No one really knew at any given moment exactly what the tone of the scene was supposed to be, which came across as a sort of nonchalance in the acting. It sorely lacked in dramatic tension, and any real danger the characters were ever in, was always quickly dealt with. The characters were one dimensional at best, and the plot was as simple and un-compelling as they come. Overall, it seems like about as much effort went into this film as it takes to watch it. Would not recommend.

It seems many are quick to rip this movie a new anus. I'll be generous where others have not, though, despite the fact that this film is entirely unrealistic. I heard of it when it was being produced and have expected it to have a low budget and less than professional production team - that and I have a tolerant and appreciative mindset for amateurs seeking to make war-films, as I have always wanted to do that myself. I was impressed to see some more renowned actors present, albeit their performance was less than spectacular.The movie was only an hour and a half, so I can't say it was a waste of time per se, but probably best it wasn't longer; though the build-up was a bit much for such a brief engagement. My biggest gripes really concern the unrealistic combat and poor nature of the characters and the uniforms/equipment. I won't nitpick too much since for the average viewer such anomalies are irrelevant, but I'm rather tired of these mid-20th century style one-sided propaganda-like films... How does a small squad, almost all of whom cannot speak German and are barely even trying to wear the German uniforms they stole manage to elude what appears to be at least an entire German company - SS at that, and escape without losing a single man? Ridiculous. No way in hell would German soldiers have been that inept.This film is a buzz flick for the amateur viewer, not an actual war film. Don't expect more (perhaps even less) than what you'd see at a World War II reenactment!

Disgraced WWII Army Captain, Jack Wosick, is given the opportunity for redemption when he is asked to lead a rag-tag group of misfits, who call themselves the War Pigs, on a top secret mission behind enemy lines to uncover and capture a Nazi super weapon, known as the V3 (a massive artillery canon). After watching the trailer for War Pigs, it seemed action-packed, dramatic, and often funny. It was, however, none of these things. The action scenes were highly unrealistic and at least one included a terrible CGI explosion. There were also several goofs that the producers missed prior to releasing the film.Despite the bad things about this film, the story was interesting and the acting was very decent.