denzil-09434 Possibly the most stupid WWII movie I have seen. Virtually everything about it is nonsense but the biggest plot fault, if you can even call it a plot, is that the whole thing hinges on them riding a train from France to Stuttgart. They have to fight their way into the train whilst it is in the station, yet the Nazis allow the train to depart and don't stop it en route. I think that's the stupidest part of the plot but I may be wrong. Everything else is pretty stupid too.If it was funny or a musical or something maybe this would be forgivable but there's no merit to this at all. It insults the intelligence of the audience. I won't even criticise the cast. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. They must have been paid well to make them take the script back out of the trash after first reading.

patridge-14855 I had high hopes for this movie especially I read on the cover it was "based on true events" . It was awful the worst war movie I have seen since Where Eagles Dare. Man the Germans were terrible soldiers, Vinny Jones did not a gun to take out about 20 German Soldiers, about 20 American soldiers killed over 100 German soldiers and never ran out of Ammo --so far fetched . At the end of the movie I was expecting to read about the true events but not word about this movie based on "true events" .The acting is okay but the Company of Heroes is about realistic as Die Hard movies

drufuksener I honestly can not believe this movie is ever released. Unbelievable plot...check (a group of American soldiers wandering in Germany during wartime), Neverending rifle magazines...check, İdiot German soldiers running to bullets...check and so on. I read the reviews before watching the movie, I (thought)was ready for all this stuff. Because I am a real fan of WWII history I said "I can stand for the sake of my historical curiocity,At least I will watch costumes and gears and stuff like that". I was wrong. Especially WWII fans should stay away from this movie. I even didn't mention the equipment inconsistencies and historical faults. So do yourselves a favor, stay away from this movie...

jenkinsbrigade I suspect there are actually reviews being posted here that are paid for by the studios. That is the only reason I can think of for anyone to laud this particularly putrid film.This film is terrible on many levels. The music is detracting. The camera shots wobble on some characters in a scene, but not on others, to no obvious cinematic benefit - it's just annoying. The dialog is lame. The characters are unsympathetic. The CGI effects are unconvincing.But for me, what absolutely killed any desire to continue watching this film were the repeated, blatant violations of historical accuracy that kept coming like a runaway freight train. These included (but are by no means limited to): 1) The actual initial German assault of the Battle of the Bulge took place during a very harsh winter, often during driving snowstorms, and during a period of time when Allied aircraft were grounded by weather. The location for the film, however, was obviously experiencing a thaw, complete with running melt water and sunny skies enabling Luftwaffe fighters to make sorties.2) Tom Sizemore and Neal McDonough both playing lieutenants, even though they are both far past the average age of a WWII lieutenant.3) The tanks, gads, the tanks! Really, really bad attempts to pull off convincing German AFVs. In fact, with one exception of a cameo appearance by what appeared to be a Soviet-era SU-85 or SU-100, the tanks don't resemble any tanks ever used by anyone anywhere.4) In one battle scene, the camera keeps coming back to a close-up of the barrel of a Vickers water-cooled MG. I keep looking for the Allied soldiers manning it, but there aren't any. Apparently it's supposed to be a German MG.5) The soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in blizzard-bound Belgium, then suddenly they are deep inside Germany?? 6) The Germans have conducted an a-bomb test. Right.7) The GIs, on the lam in Germany, run into a Soviet soldier, also running loose deep inside Germany, who speaks flawless English. Sure.And, being unable to take any more, that's about where I turned it off. I understand the need to suspend some belief in order to enjoy a movie, but this one was asking for more than a suspension of belief - it was an all-out assault on the sensibilities of any knowledgeable person who enjoys the war film genre, coupled with amateurish film-making. And that, my friends, is how films like this earn miserable one-star ratings.