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Saints and Soldiers is a quite powerful movie. It has a very human side, although the idea is not very unique. A movie about 5 brave allied soldiers fighting their way back to base from behind enemy lines, during WW II. Each of the characters embodies a different human typology. There is a subtle religious side, also. The movie has a good visual narrative construction. It is worth being seen.The main idea is that, behind the soldier uniform there is a human being.

I watched 10 minutes into this movie, and then I fast forwarded the rest.Long, boring, clunky, episodic and badly acted. It even has a Brit soldier with a moustache and a silly stiff-upper lip worthy of Monty Python. The long 'men on the march' sequences reminded me of Saving Private Ryan, just in winter time and with a worse musical score.In the rest of the world we don't really need more movies about American soldiers in WW2. I could not or did not connect with any of these country lads or their journey.I don't recommend this movie even if you liked Saving Private Ryan, it also lacks any kind of exciting action or battle scenes that distinguished the latter.

It seemed the majority of the apparently small budget was spent in the first five minutes and that was nothing special. From there prepare for a slow meaningless meander in the hills or what we see of them anyway. The writing is really bad and the acting is not much better. I am shocked that this is rated a 7, that is laughable. It is shot in the style that reminds one of a cheaply made soap opera and that gives the film an unreal cloying tone throughout. I had watched "El Alamein" right before this POS and found it much better. In fact I can't remember seeing much of a worse war movie than "Saints and Soldiers" I doubt most people would sit through this rubbish even as made for TV movie.