About a sincere a film as you could want about the sacrifices of war and the men that it creates through its pressure and unimaginable brutality. The cast is incredible and kind of makes the whole thing, all of them just bouncing off of each other in tight spaces and tense situations.
Aging up all of the soldiers felt like it skirts around the issue of the sheer number of children that were out there fighting. But it’s a good vs evil World War II movie which actually feels unique, lived in and well-written.
Stray Observations
- Shia can do so much with his face, it’s always very impressive
- A little too many doses of masculinity, but it’s played straight
- “It will end, soon. But before it does, a lot more people gotta die”
