Company of Heroes
Starring: Tom Sizemore, Chad Michael Collins,Vinnie Jones, Dimitri Diatchenko, Neal McDonough, Jürgen Prochnow
Director: Don Michael Paul
Destination Films, UFO International, Sony Pictures, USA, 2013.
The
movie is based on a video game series of the same name. In 1944 American
soldiers get an assignment from Lt. Joe Conti (Neal McDonough) to deliver some food stuffs in Ardennes.
However they are attacked by German tanks. The survivors from the attack
include sniper Nate Burrows (Chad Michael Collins), Lt Ransom (Tom
Sizemore) who was demoted to a cook after a catastrophic mission and
Sgt. Matheson.
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| Nate is a brave sniper |
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| Ransom the Cook |
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| Lt. Joe Conti sending troops to deliver some ham |
The surviving soldiers begin to investigate why
the area is so heavily guarded. They find out that the Germans are
testing atomic bomb. A dying intelligence officer orders them to deliver some papers to a spy in Stuttgart. The Americans get some needed replacements from
escaped POW Ivan Pozarsky (Dimitri Diatchenko) and British Air Force officer
Willoughby (Vinnie Jones). Polish Pozarsky is a skilled knife fighter
and Willoghby a badass bar brawler.
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| Ivan after eliminating some Nazis |
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| Willoughsby in his element |
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| The main Nazis Beimier and Lt Schott |
The group has to travel to Stuttgart and
rescue a nuclear scientist (Jürgen Prochnow) before the Nazis get the
atomic bomb ready. After some railyard gun battles and after stealing some uniforms they also meet a pretty spy Kestler (Melia Kreiling).
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| Nate and Kestler undercover |
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| German soldiers chilling |
The movie tries to the catch the epicness of
Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers with a bit of Inglourious
Basterds. But the epicness stays mostly at cheesy level, this is a
film based on a video game not real history. At half way the movie turns
into spy movie. History enthusiastics will shudder
because of many inaccuracies, Germans use what seems to be Soviet tanks and also German uniforms mix Wehrmacht and SS accessories.
The guns have unlimited ammo and Germans will not hit anything except
characters who are unimportant to the plot. However as a B-film it
entertains to some extent similarly as old fashioned war adventures.
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| Jürgen Prochnow as nuclear scientist Grünewald |
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| Soviet SU-85 in German colors |
Rating:
Average
Awesome movie! I love it and really enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteAmerican Flag on uniform not worn in WW2, Young soldier sniper said his father died fighting with General Pershing as did the the Lt, Pershing fought in ww1 1918, If his father died in 1918 he would never had been born. Same as the phony Lt with the US Flag on his shoulder.
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