Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

A different way of telling a story

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Watch this then watch Brotherhood of War. Exceptional director and film. No review is needed. Save the time reading this and just watch it. Period

First of all, maybe the story was far for what was really happened. Maybe you can get the impression that the Germans were more kind. It doesn't matter really, you have to see a great idea to make a film. That is all about. Personally watching that film, my beliefs about the war, the flags and the nations were getting stronger. It is ridiculous for the mankind to die for a piece of cloth!!! It is more ridiculous to die for fabricated piece of earth thought to be yours. Try to understand that the rich people they never taking guns to go to war, more often be happy about it. As i watched those poor bastards kill each other in every battlefield showed in the movie, I couldn't help thinking that we the poor guys, we are so so jerks!!! Conclusion: Must see, with open mind

First of all, I am absolutely in shock that the ratings for this film are so low. Especially the metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes reviews; they usually are able to decipher an amazing movie from a shamble. Moving on. The story of the movie is, bar none, without a doubt, one of the absolute best in the last 50 years of war movies. For those who know little about the Korean part in the Imperial Army, many Koreans were forced to fight for the Japanese Army. Those caught in unfortunate situations, those who lived in Japan at the time, and also prisoners. This movie takes a strong jab at the WWII movie genre and ends up as a personal favorite, definitely my favorite war film released in the last decade. The plot is vicious, but well-rounded, emotional, and also generally historically accurate. The special effects are in-par with any blockbuster that had an enormous budget. However, probably due to technological advances in the last decade, I feel as if the money is well-spent. The effects aren't OVERLY done, yet capture many horrors of war. The story doesn't dwell on death, and shows promise of life, which is a rare balance to maintain. This movie will make you feel for the characters. The protagonists and the antagonists are developed very well, as expected from a 2+ hour movie. Seeing a movie about WWII that isn't made in the Western world is rare. Seeing one that is done VERY WELL, and that isn't propaganda or incredibly biased, and that has an AMAZING story that is easy to follow is a masterpiece, and this one falls nothing short of one. Lastly, I have been seeing reviews and comments about "they didn't like it because it was hard to follow".... In regards to that, as long as you can read, or understand the languages, you can ignore everyone else saying it's hard to understand.....As it is a foreign film with foreign names, you must pay attention to really understand all of the pieces involved, and if you can't pay attention long enough to understand the dialogue (i.e. not checking your phone and missing three sentences of speech), you shouldn't be critiquing a movie or providing a review. I absolutely love this film and would recommend it to anyone that enjoys foreign films, war movies, or hardcore dramas. 95/100

I will start with the obvious, the story is about a man who fought for the Imperial Army, Soviet Army and German Army but, except for that, 99% of the things shown, and most likely most of the characters shown, never could have happened or existed in real life. It's also filled with jaw dropping anti-Japanese hate. Especially fake are the military engagements and actions shown: a sniper shooting down a Soviet airplane with a rifle shot(in real life the dedicated AA guns had problems with shooting down those soviet planes), the Japanese army having no forward scouts and always looking like children getting surprised all the time, the Soviet machine-gun tankers riding unprotected with the turret opened when charging into battle(military tactics specifically prohibited such things), Japanese fuel trucks bumping the front of the Soviet tanks(while the Soviet tanks were missing them at almost point blank range), magically exploding and even more magically destroying said soviet tanks, and this sort of stuff is only in the first hour of a 137 min. movie. Who ever gave this movie more than 1 star is very much enjoying hating the Japanese, and/or enjoying being lied to, without thinking how physics or the military work, without informing themselves on the events or without asking themselves if that would really work 'in the real world'. Shameful movie, even more shameful propaganda. I don't enjoy being lied to my face in such manner.