The mini series is by no means an accurate historical narration, and certainly not perfectly logical, yet it is a good piece as entertainment.
A movie is not a documentary, and this subjectivity allows more freedom to develop characters, plots and expression of social critique. Unfortunately the film fails to exploit this advantage, instead giving too much attention on building the tension to create strong emotional reaction, even sacrificing common sense to accomplish that goal. The probability of many events in the movie are so low (e.g. meeting each other in such a huge battle field, surviving events in which the protagonist could have easily got killed) that towards the end I could not engage emotionally with the story anymore. The transition between story lines and scenes are not always smooth, and it is plagued by cliché and corny conversations, and By Hollywood standard this is completely normal, but I expected a bit more from a German production on this topic.
A movie is not a documentary, and this subjectivity allows more freedom to develop characters, plots and expression of social critique. Unfortunately the film fails to exploit this advantage, instead giving too much attention on building the tension to create strong emotional reaction, even sacrificing common sense to accomplish that goal. The probability of many events in the movie are so low (e.g. meeting each other in such a huge battle field, surviving events in which the protagonist could have easily got killed) that towards the end I could not engage emotionally with the story anymore. The transition between story lines and scenes are not always smooth, and it is plagued by cliché and corny conversations, and By Hollywood standard this is completely normal, but I expected a bit more from a German production on this topic.