Saints And Soldiers (DVD)

I had to watch this movie a second time before I could really appreciate this movie. I then bought it and it is at the top of the list of movies I own. It has good action but is not an action movie. It is more of a drama and showed the heroes in the movie to be "regular" guys that were brave enough to serve and suffer in war. My grandfather was in WW II and I could not help but think about those who served bravely. The acting was superb and it is amazing to see such a movie of high caliber that was made on such a small budget. The comments about Mormons and the like are not appropriate. You could not even tell Corbin Allred was a Mormon. He just appeared to be a tormented yet religious person. Watch it without distractions. It's worth it.

This film was made and released after Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers so I hoped it would be similar. In fact it was awesome.

It is set in Dec 1944 and details the US Prisoners (POW's) battle for survial after the Germam army's counter offensive in the Ardennes Forest, in Belgium.

Many Allied soldiers are captured during the counter offensive and a small band of American soldiers manage to escape. However they no longer have any weapons or food, ravaged by the cold, the men are determined to make it back to their own frontline. But as their perilous journey takes its toll, loyalties become divided and lives hang in the balance.

A mesmerising, hallucinatory journey thorough the hellish landscape of war ravaged Europe,based on real life events this film tells the story of ordinary men and the mission that made them heroes.

The film is 86 mins

A must see war film.