Boring, though... The film is a prequel to an earlier 2003 film of the same name. It is another dull low-quality pathos agitation, replete with all sorts of stamps.
Americans are, as always, “angels from heaven” who easily beat out obtuse, stupid Fritzes with a loss ratio of 1 to 10. Americans talk, play shooting range, glue French women and generally have fun while walking along the German rear, the Germans as always can only shoot civilians and prisoners and ingloriously die massively under American bullets.
With a dozen Americans with rifles bravo attacks a German platoon with an armored personnel carrier and a tank, shoot themselves at pleasure, standing at full height, and of course easily do everything and everyone - a truly wonderful sight, however, quite typical of such films.
But for the German tank (unexpectedly!) the test - looks like a T-III, quite authentic, and everything is better than the eternal Pattons and Chaffee in the role of the Germans. Moreover, this tank generally looks suspiciously like a real “three”! Even if it is a new product, it is very well made! And all the more strange to see such a decent thing, and even on the move, and suddenly in such a completely thrashing film.
Compared to the first film dedicated to the battles in the Ardennes (“They were soldiers”, 2003), which is quite dull and boring, where 90% of the timekeeping is occupied by boring chatter, and the rest of the time – a few clumsy shots with a consistently deplorable result for the Krauts, this film looks still lively and slightly more interesting.
A curious general detail for both films is the periodic release of captured enemies to the wild, and the constant alaverda – for example, today the Yankees released the German, tomorrow the same German will release the same Yankee, or vice versa. Peace, friendship, gum. Nice.
On the other hand, the first film had some kind of bad, but still the plot, and in this film it, I must say, is not traced at all. No word at all. Something in the film happened several times, and why, why, what relationship and for what in general the whole fuss was absolutely unclear.
So in general, both films are worth each other, it is not worth spending time watching either. The artistic value of both is near zero. Well, except that in this movie the German tank is surprisingly decent. Nothing else worth it.
3 out of 10