Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers (2011)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Fresh and Exciting

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Blistering performances.

Three companies of paratroopers travel in a deadly mission to France to prepare the drop zone for the airborne attack on the D-Day. They have to install an Eureka transmitter and searchlight to guide the planes in the Normandy invasion."Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers" is a dreadful and lame war movie – maybe the worst I have ever seen. The "untold and lost story" is disrespectful with the true Normandy invasion and the screenplay is awful without character development and poor dialogs. The direction is also awful with permanent close up camera and terrible soundtrack of machine gun all the time. The acting is ridiculously amateurish. The "battle scenes" are so fake and there is one particularly corny scene, when the German soldier throws a grenade in the trench, one paratrooper shows it to the others and uses his body to contain the explosion instead of throwing it back. My vote is two.Title (Brazil): "Desbravadores: Na Companhia de Estranhos" ("Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers")

The dreadful World War II epic "Pathfinders: In the Company of Strangers" spouts more gab than gunfire. More than half of the action takes place in either some kind of room or enclosure where the G.I.s swap stories or fret about the future. The story occurs a couple of days before the Allies stormed the French coast at Normandy. The heroes are a volunteer group of 82nd Airborne Americans who will be the first of the first to bail out over France. Historically, these 'Pathfinders' were ordered to mark the terrain and establish communication with the USAFF pilots who were flying overhead with paratroopers to deposit. The wardrobe, firearms, and equipment appear largely authentic, but the lackluster dramatic moments reflect the amateurish approach of freshman writer, producer & director Curt A. Sindelar and rookie co-scripter Charlie Armstrong. The characters emerge at best sketchy, and the dialogue is forgettable blather. One conversation revolves around a man puking up his guts. The actors struggle to make the act of purging amusing while they laugh as they describe the circumstances. Most of the dialogue is banal. The occasional clashes in the field between the Pathfinders and the German soldiers are okay. The most interesting character doesn't belong to the group and eventually this outsider gets separated from them and captured by the enemy. "The Longest Day" featured the Pathfinders and their hand-held click toy that served as a password between them and their companions if they got separated. Chaos reigns during the jump and several Americans die. If this had been a documentary with re-enactors, "Pathfinders" might have been salvageable. Unfortunately, the characters spend far too much time shooting off their mouths rather than shooting off their guns. There is a peripheral romance between one of the Army officers and a well-to-do English lady. World War II fans should avoid this 91-minute film.

Dreadful acting, dreadful sound, dreadful camera-work, dreadful script. Dreadful! One doesn't need 10 lines of text to go into how bad this film is. One doesn't need 10 lines of text to go into how bad this film is. One doesn't need 10 lines of text to go into how bad this film is. One doesn't need 10 lines of text to go into how bad this film is. One doesn't need 10 lines of text to go into how bad this film is. One doesn't need 10 lines of text to go into how bad this film is. One doesn't need 10 lines of text to go into how bad this film is. One doesn't need 10 lines of text to go into how bad this film is. One doesn't need 10 lines of text to go into how bad this film is. One doesn't need 10 lines of text to go into how bad this film is. One doesn't need 10 lines of text to go into how bad this film is.

Watch world, the character of the American soldier as portrayed nowadays by Hollywood! Bring back the Bronsons (Charles), the Mitchams (Robert), Marvins (Lee)),Douglasses (Kirk),Waynes (JOHN) R E A L TOUGH M E N like those who invaded Germany and destroyed Nazism. I was in the military and these fruits don't stand a chance on a Sunaday evening as soldiers stateside, let alone paratrooping into NAZI Germany.Hollywood what happened to the rolemodels we were looking up to as boys to grow up and become like? What would the rest of the world think about the all American soldier today? You wanna make a war movie? Recruit from the military, nothing better than the real thing compared to this Hillywood disaster.Enemies of America, rest assure the American soldier does not look nothing like these buttercups (at best), others called it a bluff and lost the bet. Don't believe the Hollywood hype.By the way who made it a rule that if you are using capitals you are "shouting," and not "EMPASIZING." A MORON most likely.