Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Gerda Klar This was a great war film come on guys, there are people out there who have knocked this film way down. It does not deserve a bad review, it was well thought out, the music was absolutely amazing and the acting really good. the lead Tino Struckmann did an amazing job some of the scenes really got to me. And I agree they did their research many small details in there, not just a fluffy movie. would love to see Struckmann in a remake of the Iron Cross, or a brother movie with Olivier Grunor they play really well of each other. For any war film it is a must see, it is an independent film but put very well together despite of that. I find it sad that so many people have spent so much time finding small and insignificant points to trash this film, it was a fine film with great points and acting.

jlthornb51 Gifted director Jerry Buteyn brings to screen an epic Second World War drama that manages to breathe new life into films of this sort. Stunning panoramas of terrific battles are amazing in their intensity and realistically staged, highlighted by a magnificent music score. Careful attention has been paid to uniforms and weapons, with extreme care taken with historical detail. Some of the battle sequences, especially those involving armor and aircraft, are especially breathtaking. Yet, despite being a large scale film, it is indeed the very human aspects of the superb screenplay that holds everything together. A fine cast brings life to characters who are quite real in their humanity and struggling to face incredible challenges for the sake of all they hold dear. The performance of the great Michael Berryman as a Soviet officer is one of his best in years. With tremendous scope and special effects but retaining a focus on the humanity involved, this is one of the finest WWII films of the past decade.

lancer165 Overall I have to agree that as a movie with so much entertainment and potential greatness suggested by the cover this was a let down of sorts.The production reminded me more of a docudrama informative but that even failed to make me believe any potential revelations being told.I feel that the main nut of the story (BROTHERS) was the telling of a deeper linking of minds of the Brotherhood in the middle of a terrible war. Moments of this were shown but so little it might well have been missed.Too many interesting tit bits got bogged down in this telling which might have been better suited to being 'televised' as a mini series with each piece of this story being given its own airing.We saw examples of the baser sides of the German and Russian military machine but at the end we see how the US soldier is obedient when our fleeing heroes are caught in a crossfire situation which would surely have resulted in their accidental 'execution'If anything we are invited to believe in the sheer doggedness of the severely wounded LOYAL Russian but EVIL Colonel on the trail of a potentially very sensitive leak which could affect the post war settlements. The nit picking. Panzer is Tank so really if we were using English as our base language the dialogue would have used the word TANK not Panzer. Both are generic names. Think 'Panzergrenadier' as this is a supporting infantryman of an armoured unit. I don't think we have an equivalent job description as such in the US or GB.Usage of each others weapons. Tommy guns were a popular pick up item. The German Mauser or browning pistol also prized. Battle reenactment possible only by the use of lovingly restored vehicles and beggars cant be choosers.I don't see how the music grabbed anyones attention as it was at times too much and too loud and pointless reminding me of those afternoon regurgitated American drama series with mostly only upper body camera work and long dialogues telling our story with so very little action of any kind including facial movements.This story also mentioned the word brother quite often before the meeting of the two masons.If there was a story of some truths here I am sure it was written in a different way so the fault would lie with the translation to screen.Yes stereotypical villains to point of almost comedy, and the on off use of accents to suggest language (I wasn't annoyed by the British accent it took Hugh Daly 38 years to cultivate this and he still spends time in the UK to keep up to date with the lingo).The last laugh was at the end when our German survivor managed to have an interview with did no one notice ?? Bernard Law ---------- fill in the last name and good o'l Ike themselves. Oh the artistic license. This is who our dying Brit Parachutist Major wanted his vital information to passed on to.The activities of the Russian are being brought to light all the time and are uncomfortable facts which are not appreciated. Churchill was always somewhat dubious about the attitudes of this nations leaders but was kept out of some talks by the Roosevelt Stalin team).I suppose I could have watched the UK offering of the X Factor.It was however badly directed and told.

steve0557 I'm not a WWII historian. I do appreciate authenticity in movies about history. Especially movies about American history. I know what most people know about it. One thing I do know is that there were only 48 stars on the American flag in 1944-45. The scene in the American commander's quarters shows a 50 star flag hanging behind him. No, you can't quite count all the stars. But, the pattern of the array is of the post 1958 flag. Couldn't the prop department afford to go out and find a period-correct flag? I could forgive terrible special effects and a bad plot and stiff acting. But, the wrong flag! Low budget indeed!