The footage of tanks, artillery and the bridge attacks are brilliant, realistic and powerful.
The acting is superb.
All the technical elements are top-notch.
The story is boring and a bit stupid.
That is not to say it is unrealistic... just stupid- like so much about war, and the psychopaths who devise and orchestrate such gross wastes of life.
The German high command want the Bridge destroyed.
The Allies want the Bridge destroyed.
However, some compassionate and reasonable German Officers want the bridge to remain undestroyed until tens of thousands of their troops can be evacuated over it.
The rest of the film is focused on various officers changing their minds about destroying the bridge - or not, while everyone involved gets stroppier and increasingly depressed, while grappling with their diminishing humanity.
The footage of the town being destroyed is really brilliant though. Its incredibly realistic because it is REAL - the town was actually destroyed and filmed!
If you compare the footage in this film with (ahem) a well-known war that 'appears' to occurring at the moment it may raise many questions about how AUTHENTIC the footage we see on the NEWS BROADCASTS really is, and why we don't see the 'attacks' from numerous cctv vantage points or other places.
The acting is superb.
All the technical elements are top-notch.
The story is boring and a bit stupid.
That is not to say it is unrealistic... just stupid- like so much about war, and the psychopaths who devise and orchestrate such gross wastes of life.
The German high command want the Bridge destroyed.
The Allies want the Bridge destroyed.
However, some compassionate and reasonable German Officers want the bridge to remain undestroyed until tens of thousands of their troops can be evacuated over it.
The rest of the film is focused on various officers changing their minds about destroying the bridge - or not, while everyone involved gets stroppier and increasingly depressed, while grappling with their diminishing humanity.
The footage of the town being destroyed is really brilliant though. Its incredibly realistic because it is REAL - the town was actually destroyed and filmed!
If you compare the footage in this film with (ahem) a well-known war that 'appears' to occurring at the moment it may raise many questions about how AUTHENTIC the footage we see on the NEWS BROADCASTS really is, and why we don't see the 'attacks' from numerous cctv vantage points or other places.