The Lost Battalion

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Summary: Great action film, showing how our brave men
Review: Great action film, I plan to get this as soon as it is released. A great film for the man to share with their wife and children so they can see what us men have gone through in all past wars where you really had to fight hand to hand. Many brave men have been lost fighting for this country. Thanks to movies like this all americans can see what our men went through in combat.

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Summary: Outstanding War Film
Review: One of the best war movies I have ever seen. This was powerful and realistic with a great cast of characters. I think its the best made-for-television movie I have ever seen. You can easily understand why the men and women who served call it the War to End All Wars. This is a must see movie.

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Summary: The Lost Battalion
Review: The very best WW1 movie ever made.Special effects were super!! Thisis a must see war movie. Salute tothe cast and crew. Very good movie on World War One.

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Summary: lost boys
Review: I have viewed this movie and it has excellent visual effects depicting world war one.
the story line is flowing and precise.
Acting roles are well presented and adhere to the story line

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Summary: A good flick
Review: When I was in my formative teens, an older and wiser confidant and mentor confided that "the best anti-war film is a good war film." Having served, I agree. Although cinema tends to degrade the experience to two dimensional, this film succeeds in communinicating the concept of "war" in a way that American viewers will have little difficulty understanding. Our lack of knowledge and understanding of the past has contributed to our present-day ignorance and ill-formed opinions about the world outside our borders. This movie does a good job of filling in some of the blanks about WWI- now all we need is an objective look at the rest of the history of the world.

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Summary: This is one of the best...
Review: The lost battalion is about the men of the US Army's 77th division 308th battalion who are in the Argonne forest and are completely surrounded by German troops during world war 1. With the fake promise of reinforcements on either side of them, they plunge headfirst deeper into the woods, where they battle to survive in desperate, and brutal battles with the germans.

Rick Schroder gives an almost masterpeice of a performance as Major Charles Whittlesey, a man who is a lawyer from New York, who leads his "city boys" without food, water, or ammunition. He tries to tell his commanders that he needs reinforcements for his men, but recieves none. Nevertheless he refuses to surrender to the German troops and continues to keep his men linked together.

The movie is a great action film, yet it is also a moving film as less than 500 men try to survive an almost impossible task in front of them.

The german troops serve as men who want to win, no matter what, they are determined to destroy this small thorn in their side as quickly as possible.

The americans are trying to stay alive, using every small trick in the book to try and last another day. Everytime another battle has ended Whittlesey collects the dog tags and binds them together to make one huge pile of tags at the very end of the movie.

Warning: This movie contains some graphic violence that isnt for everyone. Nothing as bad as Braveheart, or Passion of the Christ, but there are some scenes that would make people shudder. Like when they get bombed by thier own artillery, one of the worst things that could happen, and when several german attacks leave almost no one alive.

But anyways, the rest of the characters are great too, several of the "city boys" tend to stick together at the beginning of the movie, but near the end they turn to the boys who grew up around trees in order to live another day. Several of Whittlesey's officers are great too, they provide strong supporting characters.

This is a great movie, and the surprising thing is it is a tv movie! This was a low budget film, yet they manage to give it almost a fantastic level of excellence. I would highly reccomend this to anyone who is a War movie fan, this is one very underrated film and deserves our attention.

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Summary: 365 Movies A Year
Review: My son returned from Baghdad last May after a year. It was his third deployment (Desert Storm and Bosnia). He married a woman 9 years his junior and I really don't think she understands what war means, so after watching it, I am buying a copy to send to her and my son. They have 3 beautiful children and I think the movie will help their marriage. Since she is just 25, she doesn't really understand the horrors of war. Since my son has come home, things haven't been well in their marriage. Perhaps, this movie will give her some insight. The bonus features will help my son realize that his wife and mother went through the war vicariously and it wasn't easy on the home front, either. The features will also help the general, uninformed public realize that the casualties of war are NOT just the dead, but those who come home maimed and wish they were dead. It was a realistic movie based on true events. The characters were fleshed out enough for us to feel deep remorse when they died or were injured. I recommend this movie to the younger people. Hurry and watch it before the next election, if you are old enough to vote!

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Summary: not bad for a tv movie
Review: OK ill admit that doesnt do the film justice.When i first watched it i kinda expected a same old yank war film in which europe is saved by da US boy was i wrong.To it had a low budget this film was great in many ways its a better antiwar film than saving private ryan.Sure at some points the acting isnt as good as saving private ryan and it isnt as graphic this film truely does the men who died justice.

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Summary: The Best WWI Movie in my Opinion!!!
Review: Excellent!!!
This movie is highly accurate & looks extremely realistic!
It's much better than "All Quiet on the Western Front" & it has good acting, great action & it's all based on actual events that took place.
Some people complained about this movie for being too gory/violent for a t.v. movie.......all I can say to that is "Too bad, thats WAR!"
War aint about picking flowers & daisies next to your trench in No Man's Land!

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Summary: If you enjoy ultra-gore....
Review: Man, this movie is insanely violent for a TV movie. Gore, blood, men being eviscerated and hacked all around by bullets, artillary, knives, bayonet, hand-to-hand combat. Expect a lot of takes with point-blank shots in the head, blood coming out flowing from dying bodies,knives entering stomaches, people getting smashed to the ground.

Congratulations to the producers. If they wanted to make us feel uncomfortable for showing 92 minutes of sheer violence on screen, they accomplished it!