Review of The Lost Battalion

When you look at the box, or consider the no name actors aside from Rick Schroder, and see that A&E made this movie for t.v. with a small budget, you may wonder why your even watching it at all. Yet when you do watch it, and get deep into the plot, you notice this is one good movie. The scenery was on par, the acting was very good, even Schroder did very well. The action sequences, though not comparable to Saving Private Ryan for obvious reasons, were very well done. Plenty of blood and explosions, and though a few of the flying wildly deaths were a bit corny, everything else was on key. I own every single war movie made in the last 20 years that exist on DVD, and this is definately one on the upper end of that spectrum. In 2 years, 2 great war movies were made that most have never heard of (A&Es The Crossing as the other one), others cannot find, and if you wish to own, must check online. Give this movie a shot, because it belongs in any war movie collection. I took off only for a few factors, a little short, a little corny in the death scenes, and as a history buff, I am not sure the uniforms were on par from the German side, looked WWII'ish, haha, but lack of budget can account for that. 8/10