Company of heroes (film review)

Plot.
American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.

Now I always watch war films with a certain amount of caution, the trouble is being an ex-soldier I see the mistakes, some films are terrible, others pretty good, this one falls about midway.
The uniforms and weapons look about right which is a plus, but they still get basic things wrong, like soldiers smoking at night behind enemy lines (not a good idea) and worse the squad being bunched up all the time, in the real word they'd be about 15 meters apart at least, otherwise one good burst of fire and their all dead.

The film started looking very promising, a routine delivery patrol turns into stopping Hitlers atomic bomb, sadly though I didn't really enjoy the film, I didn't find most of the characters engaging or believable, and things started to get a bit far fetched when the small patrol took on a tank supported by infantry, after that things went downhill getting less and less believable.

A good idea, but could have been a lot better if it'd had been made a bit less "gung ho"

Waynes rating 5/10