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Saints And Soldiers
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:7
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: While it draws heavily on war movie conventions, Saints and Soldiers has strong performances and a compelling central plot.
Theatrical Release:Aug 6, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $1,004,940
Synopsis: Based on actual WWII events, the award-winning "Saints and Soldiers" tells the dramatic story of a small band of Allied soldiers trapped behind enemy lines with information that could save... Based on actual WWII events, the award-winning "Saints and Soldiers" tells the dramatic story of a small band of Allied soldiers trapped behind enemy lines with information that could save thousands of American lives. Outgunned and ill-equipped, they must now battle a frigid wilderness and roving German troops to smuggle the critical intelligence back to Allied territory. In mid-December 1944, Hitler's Army charges through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium, initiating the offensive that will come to be known as the Battle of the Bulge. The Germans cross paths with a battalion of American soldiers and take them captive on a snow-covered field near Malmedy, Belgium. When a few of the Americans try to escape, the German soldiers open fire on the unarmed prisoners, in the tragic event now known as the Malmedy Massacre. Corporal Nathan "Deacon" Greer, his friend Sergeant Gordon Gunderson and a handful of others survive the massacre by playing dead and escaping into the nearby woods. The small band of soldiers come across stranded British intelligence officer Oberon Winley, who has valuable information to be delivered to Allied forces, increasing the urgency of their already desperate situation. The group forms a fragile bond as they begin to trust each other. But the constant threat of capture, as well as mounting suspicions of a German sympathizer within the group, threaten to tear them apart. Now, with few weapons, no food and a strained camaraderie, this tiny band must take on the unforgiving winter and a forest filled with enemy troops to fight their way back to Allied occupied territory. -- © Excel Entertainment [More]
Starring: Corbin Allred, Peter Holden
Starring: Corbin Allred, Peter Holden
Studio: Excel Entertainment
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Reviews for Saints And Soldiers
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.
In his feature film debut, Little uses washed-out color and a you-are-there immediacy to tell a powerful wartime tale of survival, morality and honor.
There's little here to make this stand out in an already well-stuffed genre.
War is heck in the clean-scrubbed world of Saints and Soldiers, the best low-budget, Mormon World War II epic you'll see this year.
Well mounted, frequently gripping WWII tale of GIs surviving behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge.
Little neatly ratchets up the suspense while throwing emotional spotlights on the inner struggles of each combatant trapped in this hostile, frozen wilderness riddled with German troops.
It spends too much time as a small war movie instead of a big-question movie.
Dubiously aspiring to be a Mormon variation on Saving Private Ryan, this dull, static war movie follows five Allied soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in the waning days of World War II.
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