Just watched one of the most cretineous war films I have ever seen. Of course it s a recent film, noone would ever have dared make something like that 40 years ago.
"Company of heroes"
Sorry for the spoilers but people need to be warned about losing 100 mn of their short lives:
The movie starts promising with an ambush, some sniper fire...and some of the cast of "band of brothers" is there so you are rather expecting something interesting.
Then the dialogue starts and it´s right on the level of "Plan 9 from outer space".
As a matter of fact, an elite company is sent officially to deliver some turkey or something to forward lines, but the intelligence know that there is some kind of bomb being built by the nazis. An atomic bomb....
Time to move in to Germany behind enemy lines...with US uniforms and no German speakers, the operation can only be successful.
Lots of guys get shot by nazi soldiers, but the others board a train (in nazi Germany) under fire from German soldiers who stop once the train is out of sight because there is really nothing they can do I guess. The guys meet some prisoners there, including a Brit played by an actor who desperately wants to be the next Jason Statham but is probably already too old for that. The train ride is uneventful even though the Germans know the Americans are on the train, know the destination of the train and FFS the train is running in nazi Germany itself...
At one point, the US soldiers do realize that a US uniform in Stuttgart might give them away. They manage to get German uniforms and so two of them can stroll on the Stuttgart busy streets talking out loud in English about something as important as their wives and girlfriends back home.
A dude who everyone thought was Polish is in fact Russian and tries to double cross the Americans.
But still the operation continues all the way to atomic plant factory where the Americans run out of ammo and are seconds from being shot until a nazi commander comes in and just like in bad supervillain movies stops the action so he can reveal his plan and as usual in all these movies this gives the guys the time to turn the table around and win.
It has as much military value as "Captain America" or "Wonderwoman". I even think "Top Secret" with Val Kilmer was more realistic.