Once again I got sucked into watching garbage on The Roku Channel. I have always been interested in the battle for Stalingrad so this looked interesting. I was soooo wrong.
1. The first 2/3 of this movies is a travelogue shot by a young German soldier describing his trip from France to Stalingrad. The 8mm home movies are the only thing keeping me from a one star review because at least it was new, even though it was intensely boring and had nothing to do with the battle.
2. This first part has a sound track of German oompah music played on a loop just in case you have forgotten how bad it is. And you can't mute it because there are no subtitles.
3. The last third of this move is just a mishmash of newsreel footage of the battle (or other battles) with no explanation of what is going on, just lots of shots of cannons firing, rockets being launched and tanks driving through the snow. It's like they dumped the footage in a blender and spliced together the result. You will learn NOTHING about the battle.
So if you want to watch some home movies about traveling to Stalingrad go ahead. Otherwise skip it entirely.
Where does the Roku channel find this crap? This is the third thing they've advertised that was absolute garbage. I won't get sucked in again.
1. The first 2/3 of this movies is a travelogue shot by a young German soldier describing his trip from France to Stalingrad. The 8mm home movies are the only thing keeping me from a one star review because at least it was new, even though it was intensely boring and had nothing to do with the battle.
2. This first part has a sound track of German oompah music played on a loop just in case you have forgotten how bad it is. And you can't mute it because there are no subtitles.
3. The last third of this move is just a mishmash of newsreel footage of the battle (or other battles) with no explanation of what is going on, just lots of shots of cannons firing, rockets being launched and tanks driving through the snow. It's like they dumped the footage in a blender and spliced together the result. You will learn NOTHING about the battle.
So if you want to watch some home movies about traveling to Stalingrad go ahead. Otherwise skip it entirely.
Where does the Roku channel find this crap? This is the third thing they've advertised that was absolute garbage. I won't get sucked in again.