The only good thing about this pathetic mess of a "war picture" is that it's short, only about a half-hour. In that half-hour, however, the "filmmakers"--and I use the term loosely--manage to cram in some of the worst writing ("War is a demon!"), acting, photography, editing, "special effects" and laughably stupid "battle scenes" I've ever seen. The "plot" is about an American patrol sent to establish an observation post on a small hill., but when they get there the hill consists of an open field with a small rise in the middle of it. It's obvious that no one who had anything to do with this film had ever been anywhere near the military, but at least they should have gotten some kind of advice from someone who has been. Damn near NOTHING is right--officers don't salute subordinates first; privates don't tell officers "go f**k yourself"; enlisted men don't call lieutenants "L T"--not during World War Ii, anyway; the words "intel" and "the bottom line is" weren't used during World War II; and in a masterpiece of stupidity, the writer has a German machine gun crew set up in the middle of an open field with no cover that's the worst place to set up an ambush, about 50 yards from a treeline that offers plenty of cover and is the perfect place to set up an ambush. If that isn't bad enough, the writer also has the American patrol assigned to take that hill make its way to the treeline, see the German crew in the middle of the field and its lieutenant suddenly orders his men to burst out of the cover of the treeline and charge the Germans, which results in most of them getting shot to pieces (oh, and there's an SS officer in charge of a regular German army unit, which wouldn't happen because the SS isn't part of the regular army, which is something ELSE the writer didn't know).
The movie is cheap-looking, but that isn't what makes it bad; the sheer incompetence shown in every facet of its production is what makes it bad. The movie is frustratingly stupid, has nothing to say although they make a failed effort at trying to sound profound, and I've actually written more about this train-wreck of a movie than it deserves, so take my advice--you can find far better things to do with a half-hour of your life than spend it watching this.
The movie is cheap-looking, but that isn't what makes it bad; the sheer incompetence shown in every facet of its production is what makes it bad. The movie is frustratingly stupid, has nothing to say although they make a failed effort at trying to sound profound, and I've actually written more about this train-wreck of a movie than it deserves, so take my advice--you can find far better things to do with a half-hour of your life than spend it watching this.
