Not that bad of a film but ....

I liked how it conveyed war as hell and made you understand the situation a bit. But I'm still having trouble with these WW2 films. I don't know what it is but when it comes to WW2 war films, the writers and directors always seem to afraid to dig in deep. Vietnam war era up to modern war era films are very graphic. You see atrocities, you hear explicit language, you see men turn into animals. But for some reason WW2 films can't show that. For example in this film no one seems to get angry about their situation, they don't question orders, they don't protest what's going on. They're just clean cut men saving the world from the bad guy. When you're in the military you cuss up a storm, you adapt and get fed up, you become an animal to survive. But in this film they just act like well behaved gentlemen and one has a drinking problem. Like a lot of films of this type it just feels like a military recruitment tool. It's an ok film and I'm glad it was made because people gotta know what's happened but it never gets into the depths of what you'd see in something great like Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, or even Saving Private Ryan. When it comes to WW2 films, hollywood seems to glorify the crap out of it like it was the only honorable war.

Apart from that there are a few problems with the film that I didn't like. The cgi looked blurry sometimes, and there's a part in the film where it feels like it's actually spoofing itself. It's a scene where over and over and over someone dies during a flashback sequence that is totally ridiculous. I mean it's laughable when it should be sad. The Native American actor was terrific in this. When he's explaining why he shouldn't be there touting around as a hero it brings tears to your eyes, you feel some of his pain. But after a while the racist treatment he gets makes you wonder why the hell he even wears that uniform.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
-Ron Paul