A Walk in the Sun lacks intensity of Lewis Milestone's masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front. In fact there is too much jaw jaw as the platoon soldiers chat among each other while walking.A platoon lands in Italy with the object to take a Nazi held farmhouse, their lieutenant is injured and it is up to the platoon's sergeants to lead them further and achieve their aims.This is an unsentimental look at the life of the infantrymen, we get to learn about their background and what makes them tick. The trouble is it's all a bit dull. The film has a solid cast but I felt they could had done with more snappier and profound dialogue.

This rotten tomato got the axe at the 26 minute mark ... when some bozo rattles off about the 1955 battle of Tibet for the 3rd time (movie takes place in 43). This is seriously one of the worst WW2 films I have seen ... and I have seen many! On the boring meter it sits atop with the French film "A Man Escaped" ... which was at least artistic.Seriously 90% of the film is idle chatter and that does not make for a good film. More so you can tell that very little money was spent on the film ... it is borderline amateur. Finally the singing narration ... that may have been a good idea in 1945 but it torpedoes in 2015.I could tell this film would get the gong within the first 5 minutes ... yet I tried to hang in there ... thinking it may pull up from the dive ... it did not. Don't waste your time.POST: I cannot believe our boys were such morons as the men portrayed in this film were. This was my parents generation and very few were this simple.

It's 1943 Italy. A group of American soldiers land on a beach near Salerno. The men dig in but their CO has been killed. As they move inland, they are tasked with blowing up a bridge.The problem with all the talking is that they are indistinguishable from one another. I had a tough time trying to lock in on some of the characters. Maybe back in the day, people recognize some of these faces. Without knowing who these characters are, it is a bunch of random soldiers talking. The night shoots are also very dark which only adds to the confusion. One of the soldiers almost falls asleep waiting around and that's kind of how I felt. It's a lot of random talk punctuated by some random action. Action can happen off-screen and some can be brutal. It's suppose to show the fog of war and the mundane of a soldier's existence. It's meandering without the tension. While I appreciate the attempt, it doesn't make for a compelling movie. It would be so much better if I know who these soldiers are.

The first twenty minutes of the film has soldiers engaged in a multitude of conversations in the dark. Then the sun comes up and they start walking, but they continue to talk non-stop. Most of what they say is neither amusing nor profound. They just blabber on and on about mundane things. It seems the soldiers can simply bore the enemy to death with their gabfest. This is hailed as realistic cinema, but reality does not a great movie make. There is also a corny ballad about the soldiers that's overplayed. Andrews and Conte lead a good cast, but are let down by the lame script. It perks up in the end, but it's too little, too late.