Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 12
While it draws heavily on war movie conventions, Saints and Soldiers has strong performances and a compelling central plot.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 5
While it draws heavily on war movie conventions, Saints and Soldiers has strong performances and a compelling central plot.
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Average Rating: 3.9/5
User Ratings: 12,265
A handful of fighting men must defy the odds to save their own lives and thousands of others in this drama set during World War II. In late 1944, a band of nearly a hundred American soldiers are making their way through a wooded region of Belgium when they are ambushed by German forces in a battle that became known as "the Malmady Massacre." A small group of American soldiers are able to take cover -- hard-boiled Sgt. Gunderson (Peter Holden), a grunt from Louisiana called Kendrick (Lawrence
Aug 6, 2004 Wide
May 31, 2005
$1.0M
Excel Entertainment
All Critics (35) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (12) | DVD (4)
Nicely detailed if slackly paced.
There aren't any plot surprises in this low-budget effort, so the success of the mission from a viewer standpoint depends on how well you connect with the characters and their plight.
It has the strengths and the clean lines of a traditional war movie, without high-tech special effects to pump up the noise level.
It's the movie equivalent of singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers' to those already in the choir.
Though Saints and Soldiers' examination of faith, self-sacrifice and morality is not groundbreaking, it always holds our interest.
It's hard to get behind characters who feel like lazy archetypes.
Director Ryan Little has mounted a remarkably effective production on what must have been a shoestring by Hollywood standards.
Little makes good use of modest resources, but after a while, the film's less-is-more aesthetic grows threadbare.
A worthy effort that's entirely appropriate for mainstream audiences.
It's no earthshaker, but the indie film is refreshingly different from the current movie norm, it's won more than 15 awards on the festival circuit, and war-movie aficionados will find it well worth the journey to one of its four suburban venues.
A solid, good-looking effort that bends a bit too much toward war-film conventions.
valuable in its embrace of true Christian forgiveness
A feel-good film about a small group of soldiers in WWII who are so saintly that they never curse.
'A gem of a movie with an unusually convincing reality base. We feel as if there's no distance between us and the fighting men. And that lack of distance is the film's point.'
Trapped behind enemy lines. All they have is their hope.Good movie. This film was not bad at all. It has some pretty good acting roles and the story was decent enough to entertain. There was one goof I noticed and that is that when the solders exhale on winter snow the smoke from there mouths didn't showed at all
March 8, 2010
Super Reviewer
A warfare penned in a very usual way, and there could have been numerous events 'based' on the given premises. A preachy flick with a generous amount of cliches in it. Given all things, the movie didn't bore me and I liked it reasonably.
March 15, 2011Super Reviewer
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