It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The level to which this films dumbs down the horrors of war in order to make the film fit within the PG-13 rating bracket is genuinely offensive. Right from the off when it shows two French men being executed with the bullets hitting the walls behind them without leaving a scratch on either their clothes or bodies it is clear the film takes this ridiculous stance of censorship.War films should show war for how genuinely horrific it actually is. You can't have people just falling over without a drop of blood when they get shot or the crew of a tank crawling out with just superficial blackening after a frag grenade goes off inside the vehicle. It is just pathetic and in really bad taste.It becomes even weirder when the film will happily show someone brutally beating a man to death with his bare fists and has the main characters bleeding out and dying long and drawn out deaths. It kind of made it feel like the German soldiers were just expendable robots and aren't even human in the eyes of the PG-13 censorship guide.This would be excusable if the film actually had some kind of plot or direction but it really doesn't. Halfway through it goes wildly off the rails with a pointless shooting contest and lengthy scene of characters talking about home and blah blah cliché cliché. It was clear very quickly that the two soldiers in the jeep were Germans in disguise yet no one picked up on this until way into their boring conversation. I gave up when they decided to pointlessly attack a vastly superior German force with a tank and half track. The scene seemed to exist solely to facilitate the deaths of all but the two main characters and everyone just kind of went along with the ridiculous plan. The French Resistance were guerrilla fighters known for sabotage - not for standing on a hill out in the open firing at a tank and twenty odd Germans. It's like they all have a death wish or something.I skipped through the rest of the film after that and saw that it just looked very boring and contrived anyway. Oh and even with my basic French I could tell that the English subtitles were very flimsy and gist like translations which often missed out a lot of detail. I guess that matched the dull script though.An entirely pointless film.

If the original "Saints and Soldiers" can be considered a hit, then this "prequel" is a solid miss. The acting is acceptable. The observation about the telephone notwithstanding, the uniforms and firearms shown in the film were amazingly authentic. The special effects are reasonable given the budget the filmmakers had to work with. A number of other reviewers have pointed out that this film was "obviously" made on a low budget, but that of itself is not a valid criticism. Anyone could do better, or more at any rate, if an extra couple hundred million dollars fell on their head, but the art of the "art" is to produce something good with whatever resources available. The problem is in the script and the choreographing of the battle scenes - which were obviously not vetted by the military advisers - or, their advice was ignored. Part of the film has a "moral", that the Biblical Golden Rule "Do unto others as..." works even on the battlefield among men who are trying to kill each other. The concomitant to this is that "enemies" are also human; very much like us. The other part of the film is the conventional "Hollywood" war movie were a small bunch of "our heroes" gun down an endless supply of one-dimensional "nasty Natzees" who, when they shoot, never seem to be able hit an Allied soldier or miss an unarmed victim. Needless to say, these two parts don't mesh very well and the story just comes across as kind of dumb.

"Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed" opens with this preface. Two months after D-Day the Allied Forces initiated Operation Dragoon. Its purpose was to reclaim Southern France. The 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team was called into action. August 15, 1944. Provence, France 5:03 AM This entertaining but low-budget World War II epic lacks spectacle. Basically, watching this movie is like watching "A Walk in the Sun." You'll spot the CGI scenes because the budget couldn't accommodate the aerial flying shots. Director Ryan Little and scenarists Lincoln Hoppe and Lamont Grey confine the action to fewer than 10 soldiers. Three U.S. Paratroopers, Cpl. James Rossi (Corbin Allred), Sgt. Caleb Jones (David Nibley), and Cpl. Harland 'Bud' Curtis (Jasen Wade) are separated from their troops and make contact with the resistance. A German officer, Erich Neumann (Lincoln Hoppe), wander through this war movie. Eventually, after the Americans and the French Resistance disable a tank, they are left either dead or dying. Neumann encounters a wounded Rossi in the woods. Surprisingly, Neumann takes Rossi to a shed and patches him up. At the same time, Neumann is dying from his own bullet wound. Briefly, these two soldiers have a conversation and approach each other on the level of human beings rather than soldiers. Rossi passes out and awakens when Americans show up. Rossi has always sought a souvenir, specifically a German officer's Lugar pistol, but by the end of "Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed," he has renounced that objective. Consequently, Rossi is the only character who changes over time."Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed" takes a personal approach to war. This is the small picture or microcosm. The two biggest scenes involve the capture of two Germans masquerading as Americans and the attack on the German tank. The editing is good, especially when Bud is dying and he believes that his girl back in the states is cradling him when in fact it is a French Resistance woman. Most of the hardware in this little movie looks authentic. Toward the end in a medical unit, we see an American tank cruise through a scene. If you're looking for wall-to-wall World War II violence in the "Saving Private Ryan" mode, you're going to be terribly disappointed. Although it is a low-key actioneer, ""Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed" ranks as an above-average epic with good editing. This would be an example of a World War II movie where a German is presented in a sympathetic light. Nothing really unsavory occurs in this film.

I want to thank the makers of this film for reminding us that enemies can show great love in times of great strife.While there is a lot of action in this film resulting in a PG-13 rating, care was taken to make this viewable by the whole family and its rating would certainly have to be considered a mild PG-13.This film goes far beyond the many mindless war films that simply glorify violence. Anyone watching this film would have a renewed sense of hope that we can live more peaceably together.Kudos to the filmmakers and keep on doing what you do. Even if you don't have the Hollywood budgets, you make entertaining, truthful and inspiring films I can take my kids to. Thank you.