ritojitishere One of the baddest movies I have ever seen. How Tom Sizemore cold sign up for garbage like this after doing so well in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN is beyond me. The plot is unreal, the action clearly fake, the special effects juvenile and the characters caricatures. The train yard scene would be hilarious if it wasn't so repellent. The director should be prohibited from making another movie EVER. The bad guy with the gimp leg is one of the most ludicrous characters to ever disgrace the movie industry, and the calling out of targets on the road while driving is pathetic. British boor - ism is evident and disgusting. The script writer should be shot for writing this load of horse dung.

akdocfmf The director, writer, producer and those who funded this film did the men of the "First Special Service Force" a dishonor even mentioning them in this film.From the beginning to the end this film was poorly done. The acting was horrible, the military tactics and language was wrong. Everything about this movie appeared as if it was done by someone who played war video games on line, instead of actual experience.My suggestion would be, next time talk to a few real vets and don't use the name of a unit that has such a legacy to try and pawn off your film as historically pertinent.The reason I rented this movie was because it supposedly portrayed a historical moment in military history when in actuality all it portrayed was poor acting, slipshod research and nothing historical at all.You should be ashamed of yourself.

muggsy3658 I watched it through to the end. That's something. Especially since, in the opening scene, American GIs are firing bolt-action rifles as though they were M-1 semi-automatics, never once working the bolt. As the movie shows, they HAD at least one old Garand on set, that they could have used in that scene accurately, but no. The script delivered a sprinkling of facts about the First Special Service Force, and then ladled on a ton of malarkey. I won't address the fact that the set looked the same no matter where anyone was supposed to be, thousands of miles apart, and others have rightly criticized defects in costuming, weaponry, etc. I'll only say that, when the main Nazi bad guy stands TWICE out in the open, once marvelously silhouetted by the skyline, at, for the military, very close range, and highly trained commandos can't hit him, with an aimed Garand, a BAR, even the supernaturally accurate submachine guns, while your random, unaimed snap shots are taking out Germans who are firing from cover, well ... There are other, more egregious crimes against history, good movie making, and the laws of physics in this movie, but we'll leave it at that. The closing scene, I can say without spoiling the movie, was particularly wrong headed. Having read three books about the FSSF, I can say that anyone with a smattering of that information could have crafted a screenplay better than what was served up, with the same guns, costumes, and characters, and made a decent movie out of it, since their ACTUAL exploits still rate as fantastic, without exaggeration, to this day.

mike-ryan455 I love World War II movies. I have enjoyed ones made during World War II through the present. I have enjoyed all countries of origin from the Nazi propaganda turkey "Stuka" on. I enjoy movies about all sides and all theatres of the war, if it's a well done movie. Alas, Battle Recon definitely is not.It's normally a very bad sign when the director, the writer and the top billed star are all the same person. It was. With ludicrous acting and an utterly cliché script there was little to save the movie. The even had utterly cliché characters like the classic black on black trench coat evil SS officer.The script wasn't just cliché, it was 21st century politically correct cliché. The day had to be saved by two Italian partisan women.It's not difficult to get historical continuity in World War II movies. There are so many armchair experts to assist you. Obviously they didn't bother to go to gunboards.com and ask for a decent one. The German uniforms were clearly East German uniforms with Nazi insignias sewn on. They were almost all SS insignias, like they had hired cheaply a bunch of re-enactors.They couldn't even get basic continuity items right. The Italian partisan's gun kept switching between a Mauser and a M1 Garand. It was as if they put down their guns between shots and couldn't even tell everyone to pick up the right one between shots.Don't bother with this one, not with thousands of better World War II movies out there.