Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed (2012)

Captivating movie !

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

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

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Like it's predecessor, this movie goes too much out of it's way to make the Nazis seem nice and really not the sadistic, racist, war-like psychos they were raised to be. This film even tries to depict the Germans commander who executes French civilians in a sympathetic way....I was like, WTF? The long drawn out shallow exposition in some of the scenes belong more as cut scenes in video games. The characters seem to talk about things, that were not known until after the war, as though they read them in history books. While I do enjoy low budget independent films, but this one and all the others in this series are garbage. Not even close to the low budget HBO series Band of Brothers or The Pacific. If you want a watered down and cheesy look at what war is about then you should watch this.

"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.

Yes, the film is low budget, and the combat scenes show this, however. the movie follows group of paratroopers who meet local french resistance and set out to free there friends and rejoin the rest of their stick. Then i wont ruin the film for you but the story changes from what i feel was meant to be the real story, but still good none the less. This movie isn't a huge blockbuster gripping film but VERY moving and an emotional movie to watch. If your expecting saving private Ryan don't waste your time, its not like that but still a good movie to watch. I think this movie depicts human nature and the stresses of war more than anything else. Doesn't sound great I know. But watch it. you will be pleasantly surprised.

Saints and Soldiers surprised me by the one dimensional shabby characters involved in it and the Hollywood shabby portrayal of German soldiers as monsters. Some good shooting and movie techniques give it nice technical quality. Clearly the concept of war is unclear to the writer even more than it is to me. If you wish to waste your time on an hour long political propaganda well this is your movie. Even a kid could see that these people never existed and never will exist- recommendation if you feel like watching something which does not involve too much thinking there is the move "6 bullets" with Van Damme. Personally the first ten minutes of this movie felt like an insult to my intelligence after that it gets funny. To the creator of this movie and to all the other Hollywood filmmakers: please stop wasting resources trying to change history and the awareness of young people. And by the way, if Germany had not attacked Russia all of Europe would have spoken German probably.