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One of my all time favorites.

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

This looks like it was choreographed by a group of children playing war games. Mickey Rourke continues his tradition of signing on to movies that offer minimal screen time in return for a wage, whereby he arrives on set, appears to completely disregard any kind of script or appearance guidelines and carries on like a lunatic. In this case he's a cowboy hat wearing, long haired Colonel or something. It would be more convincing if he was a patient in a psych ward. The movie is just plain bad It's how I picture the cinematic endeavours of a group of war history buffs.

Spoiler Alert. This was a poor movie. The plot device of a mission being necessary to take out a super long range, German artillery piece (The "V3") sitting out in the open, in broad daylight, apparently totally immobile, and with the allies having 95% air supremacy in France at that time of the war, is absurd. Btw, Germany fielded such a cannon called "The Paris Gun" 25 years before in WWI. So, the concept was not new, secret or that dramatically effective - especially when compared to German rockets (V1) and missiles (V2) and jet fighter planes available at the time.Besides the WWI Paris gun idea (range about 75 mi.), this is also a take-off on the WWII-era rail guns the Germans used with some effect near Leningrad (more of a giant 600mm and 800mm siege mortars) and Sevastopol ('42), and at certain Belgian fortresses in 1940. They also had a giant gun named "Anzio Annie" that bombarded allied forces in Anzio, Italy region. All these guns had one thing in common: they were used while mounted on giant rail cars to allow them to withdraw into mountain-embedded rail tunnels when not firing, so as to be somewhat protected from allied air supremacy. (Though this wasn't a factor early in Russia since Germans had air control.) Such guns are marginally effective due to the need to be able to see where the shots were landing, unless, in case of Paris gun or Leningrad siege, the target area was general and broad. Even then, the amount of steel used in making these guns (250 ((or five Tiger tanks)), tons for Paris gun to deliver a relatively small shell, or 1,300 tons ((three U-boats)) for the massive rail siege mortars Karl, Dora), made a good argument for them being extravagant, grandiose and wasteful.It was never clear why this rag tag squad was chosen. I always really like Lundgren but he is about 57 in this movie (though his fitness level is amazing). He is even passable as an actor, though not as the co-star. Officers in French Foreign Legion, btw, wear dark Kepi (or on combat mission, a helmet), not white as do lower grade legionnaires.Rourke's depiction of a sloppy, long-haired, cowboy hat-wearing, toothpick chewing colonel in 1944 (or at any time in our history) is preposterous and it makes you wonder if he didn't just take charge of his character and, knowing movie desperate for any kind of name actor, said he was going to do this his way (just a guess). The Oddball comparison is not so good since Oddball was a low-grade Sgt, while Rourke plays a "colonel." Are we to believe that this at least battalion commander (or even regimental commander, if he's a full bird colonel) is traveling to division for briefings and what not, in full view of one and two-star generals looking like that? The squad itself is utterly forgettable. I have already forgotten them from 45 minutes ago.The best part of the movie, besides seeing that good old Dolph is looking good and challenging us older guys to stay in great shape, are the excellent depictions of a couple of pieces of German WWII gear: the Sdkfz 251 half track and the long-barrel variant 50mm Pz.IIIM. Both vehicles looked so good that they could have been real - and may have been.And, oh,... taking out the massive "V3" with one 50mm shot from wounded, amateur tank gunner Dolph is ridiculous. Nuff said. Oops... I forgot the idiotic decision to arm Dolph's character with... a 12 gauge riot gun (!!!) is, like Rourke, another feeble device to make this movie stand out somehow. Without two good vehicles and Dolph looking good, I'd have given this one star instead of two.

So many holes in the plot, miscast roles, bad acting and special effects. Mickey Rourke has a small role as a 1940's American military officer who wears a cowboy hat over his bleached long stringy hair, talking like he just woke up on the floor of a drunk tank. Dolph Lundgren plays a 1940's French military officer who has an accent he seems to be trying out for the first time and keeps changing throughout the film. They lead a group of surly, but tough GIs who call themselves War Pigs "because they like to get dirty" into enemy territory to look at a big super gun and draw some pictures. There's no explanation of why they don't take photographs or why Allied planes don't just bomb the thing. The whole mission has no point. The dangerous aspect of going many miles behind enemy lines is lost when they drive their jeeps along a nice mountain road as if they're on a camping trip, and easily drive back on the same road after destroying the super gun with a stolen tank. No attempt for the enemy to chase them or intercept them at any point in their escape. Cover photos for this waste of film prominently show a character who only appears in the first few minutes, and Mickey Rourke wearing a helmet as if he's part of the War Pigs. He never wears a helmet and he doesn't even take part in the War Pigs mission.

Where do I begin? The unrealistic training? The Dolph Lungdren doing his "French" impression? This movie should of never been made. I am so surprised how much money is wasted in movies like this. You know the plot in the first 2 minutes ("Windtalkers" for example) where a ranking officer gets his men killed, along with his best friend. Then he gets demoted, then has to command a ragtag group, I mean come on. The acting is terrible, the impressions are laughable, the script is dreadful and another thing, they smoke a crazy amount. 4-5 smokes every minute, when they are running, talking, training, dying. This movie just shows what people will do for money. I don't what else to say, the movie in all is just boring, repetitive, dull and uninteresting. You will walk away from this movie either aggravated or so stoned you forgot what happened.