646f9e108c As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, with the Nazis repelling the Allied invasion of Germany, an American tank unit gets trapped behind enemy lines. With only hours to go before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank&#39;s commander makes the incredibly risky decision to rescue an orphanage and the innocent nuns and children inside. As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, an American tank unit gets trapped behind Nazi lines. With just hours before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank&#39;s commander makes the risky decision to rescue an orphanage. It is a war movie made by the guys who makes films for scify and it shows, really poor cgi work and some pretty bad acting. However there are some good points one of the best is the bad guy played by Tino Struckmann he is a great actor in a little film, his performance is by far the best part of this film. Some tanks and guns but the bad cgi pulls me out of the scenes. I only hope Struckmann will be really appreciated for his performance and get a chance for bigger movies worthy of his talent. I get the idea they wanted to jump on the wagon of Fury but even on a low budget they could have done a bit better, most of the actors really were bad, and the effects should have been left out, if you cant afford to do cgi well don&#39;t do it at all. THE Germans AND Americans<br/><br/><ul><li>The film is extremely black and white and there is no humanization of both sides. The Americans are far too nice and good, with an exception for one of them who still doesn&#39;t do anything bad. The Germans on the other hand are these insanely fanatical killing machines who want nothing more than to torture civilians and rape women! There is not a single German in the movie who isn&#39;t killing civilians or spitting on Americans. It&#39;s unrealistic and very biased.</li></ul><br/><br/>THE BATTLES<br/><br/><ul><li>The first battle requires you to suspend your disbelief, we have around a dozen American tanks fighting around the same amount of German tanks in some obscure field in the middle of a forest, which is kinda ridiculous on its own, but the Americans are supposedly deep behind enemy lines, how on earth the American tanks manage to find themselves in this situation?</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Almost every single battle takes place in an obscure field, surrounded by thick forest, and for some reason both sides think its a good idea to drive into the center of the field and fight there rather than using their rifles and armor which is bloody well designed for ranged combat!</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The immobilized American TD, &quot;low on ammo and supplies&quot; maned by 2 guys, managed to take out 2 entire platoons of Tigers without taking a scratch… Do i even need to explain why this is stupid?</li></ul><br/><br/>THE STORY<br/><br/><ul><li>So the story is driven by these annoying little kids and their deceitful mother. The Americans come across said mother and immediately she tells them &quot;an orphanage is in danger&quot;, &quot;low on ammo and supplies&quot; our brave heroes decide to help this mother. I have so much to say about this… The 8 or so surviving Americans didn&#39;t even make a plan, they where going to walk over to the orphanage and save it from &quot;danger&quot;, what ever that means, and then walk back through enemy lines with several children. They all blindly believed this American sounding, French, actually Portuguese, nun mother. Andit turns out the mother was lying and it was just her children, the movie barely even explains why she needs help or why they are in danger, she just says her husband is an ambassador and that&#39;s it. </li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>As i said before the story hinges on these annoying kids and their mother who we know nothing about. The kids are on their own ridiculous, for the past 3-5 years they have been living in war torn Europe and yet they for some reason run away at the smallest explosion, even though their mother is right there and it usually the instinct of the child to run to their parents not into the middle of the German filled forest. Half of the Americans die because of these children! And yeah, they have been living in Europe for 3-5 years, why did they pick now to escape? Why did the Germans pick now to kill them?</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>I would also like to bring to attention the final scenes where the Americans escape from and kill the main bad guy. So we have 2 Americans, just 2, for the past 24 hours they have been running and fighting across half of Western Europe with barely any rest &quot;out of ammo and supplies&quot; which means no food or water, hell the main character was tortured into unconsciousness not 5 minutes before they decided to escape. So our 2 heroes decide to break free in the middle of the day and in the middle of German encampment with nothing more than a knife and an MP40. Our heroes manage to walk past the 30+ Germans at the base and jump into a truck before speeding off! </li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The characters also don&#39;t seem to understand how blood loss works, two characters are literally shot but somehow they manage to stay alive without any proper treatment for hours. The main character was tortured into unconsciousness and he was bleeding every where yet he managed to run into the back of a truck, shoot at the Germans for a couple of minutes and fight the main bad guy in hand to hand combat then come out alive. </li></ul><br/><br/>The equipment, weapons, uniforms and occasionally vehicles are all pretty decent, except for the CGI of course. The terrain and landscapes chosen for the film are pretty goodwell. These are the only good things i found in this film. One last point: the characters in general are bland, stereotypical and one sided.
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