As soon as the movie was half-way,I immediately said to myself: here we go again,another Dances With Wolves or Braveheart.Again,mythical main characters that ruin otherwise good movies.It must be that when actor- writer-directors have complete control,they go overboard in terms of character credibility and script. In this one,Paul Gross' character is simply too pure.Brave soldier,great commander,a gentleman,all odds against him,c'mon...In addition,the scene in the end is simply too heroic (just like the beginning scene in Dances With Wolves or almost every scene in Braveheart). Of course,the battle scenes and some aspects of the script (like the woman's morphine addiction), plus some beautiful frames makes you watch it,but in the end,WTF comes to mind. All 3 movies that I mentioned needed was a director like Scorsese or Oliver Stone or Sidney Lumet to tell them when to stop and on what to focus.Because as they are,they don't hold very well.
P.S. I wish they would stop portraying German soldiers in both world wars wars like they were mindless morons that ran into machine gun fire.Sure, in WW1 there were mass infantry attacks like that, but in almost every movie they choose the Germans as the "attacking cattle".
P.S. I wish they would stop portraying German soldiers in both world wars wars like they were mindless morons that ran into machine gun fire.Sure, in WW1 there were mass infantry attacks like that, but in almost every movie they choose the Germans as the "attacking cattle".