This movie is like one of the classic 60'th and 70'th war movies, where a lot of guys go out to complete a tuff mission and in the end - only one survive, usually the leading character.
This is a well-used form of making an adventure movie, used in classics like: "The Magnificent Seven" and the following sequels, "Dirty Dozen" - and even "Saving Private Ryan". Like the first two this movie has excluded all sorts of realism and gains its viewers those that don't know the strength that the German army had - both in the infantry and on the panzer-side - and therefor enjoys this sort of German-army-humiliating-movies, (not that I think that Germany should have won the war).
BUT! This movie is OK. It's funny, contains a lot of action and tough it put down the German strength I'm glad to say that the good guys wins. But that was pretty obvious right. No one - especially in America would dare to make a movie where the Germans win. That would be to upgrade the Nazis - and we don't want to do that - do we?
This is a well-used form of making an adventure movie, used in classics like: "The Magnificent Seven" and the following sequels, "Dirty Dozen" - and even "Saving Private Ryan". Like the first two this movie has excluded all sorts of realism and gains its viewers those that don't know the strength that the German army had - both in the infantry and on the panzer-side - and therefor enjoys this sort of German-army-humiliating-movies, (not that I think that Germany should have won the war).
BUT! This movie is OK. It's funny, contains a lot of action and tough it put down the German strength I'm glad to say that the good guys wins. But that was pretty obvious right. No one - especially in America would dare to make a movie where the Germans win. That would be to upgrade the Nazis - and we don't want to do that - do we?