

When a sniper kills one of the men, Chad Michael Collins picks up a sniper rifle and takes him out, earning him a promotion to company sniper.

The film begins with the company on a routine patrol during the winter of 1944. And though that doesn’t have to be the ruin of a war film, take The Dirty Dozen for example, this one combines it with a bad script and cartoonish action sequences that it never manages to recover from.

soldiers who wind up completing an OSS mission to discover the Nazi nuclear weapons program-of which there wasn’t a working one. The first thing to know about Company of Heroes is that it is a complete fiction, a lost company of U.S. Even the last great war film prior to the new era, When Trumpets Fade, pales in comparison to something like The Lost Battalion in terms of visual impact and dramatic realism. That said, however, the bar on war films was raised significantly by Saving Private Ryan and the subsequent Tom Hanks produced Band of Brothers. I haven’t studied books on the planes, and tanks, and guns and so those things I don’t really notice. Unlike some people, I’m a lot more forgiving about inaccuracies in war films.
