How this movie got a PG-13 rating is beyond me - the goriness alone should have earned it an R rating - scenes of exploded bodies and close-ups of a crushed in head (brains and all) were totally gratuitous. Beyond the question of the inaccurate rating, the acting was, at best, poor. No attempt was made to give the "Germans" any sort of accent and the little "Deutsch" they used was not spoken like a German would speak it. The plot, such as it was, was beyond depressing. It also did not create in me any sense of suspended disbelief. The only thing I can't believe is that I watched the whole movie instead of turning it off after the first quarter hour or so!

THE Germans AND AmericansThe 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'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't killing civilians or spitting on Americans. It's unrealistic and very biased.THE BATTLESThe 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?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!The immobilized American TD, "low on ammo and supplies" 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?THE STORYSo the story is driven by these annoying little kids and their deceitful mother. The Americans come across said mother and immediately she tells them "an orphanage is in danger", "low on ammo and supplies" our brave heroes decide to help this mother. I have so much to say about this... The 8 or so surviving Americans didn't even make a plan, they where going to walk over to the orphanage and save it from "danger", 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. And as it 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's it. 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?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 "out of ammo and supplies" 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! The characters also don'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. 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 good as well. These are the only good things i found in this film. One last point: the characters in general are bland, stereotypical and one sided.

I was never a fan of those bad CGI effects they always use in the SciFi movies and did not know is was them who made this movie. so now it makes sense. Thank you for clearing that up Marchus, it was pretty damn bad. The lead GI and the girl in distress were awful actors, I expect they never did any acting before but were cheap. But I do agree the lead Evil German officer did a great job, I even watched the making of the movie and honestly they should just have made it all with him. Solid actor who seem to work over hard to carry this film. Fighting his way up stream against the bad CGI was an impossibly task for Struckmann. Give him something in a bigger role in bigger films and leave the rest as extras.

The Asylum attempts to give us a mockbuster for the movie Fury, but it's bad, real bad, and not the so bad it's good bad, just bad.Actually, to be more actuate, it's bland. It's so generically outline, and it has no spirit to it. Forget the fact that the accents where badly done by the actors who needed to do them, and they had a series of actors who really did not look like soldiers at all. Forget that you can tell that the stunts and special effects were done for 100 bucks. forget about the fact that I'm sure they circled the same three trees 15 times as they traveled through "Nazi Germany". It's a mockbuster, so all of this can be forgiven. Doesn't help either that the tank in Fury was bas ass, but they most likely could not put that in the budget. The bigger problem here is like Fury, despite it not being about the most current war, attempts to tug on everyone's feeling about the troops who went to war. Unlike Fury, they did a really half ass job at it. They just assumed we would all be on board because we all love our troops, and the idea of them risking their lives to save an orphanage (An Orphanage! Really? Maybe if one of the orphans had a puppy?). I know this movie is not met to be taken seriously but come on? Bad attempt at stringing are hearts.Waste of time.