it hard for me to assign the fair number of star to this film and but i settle on 8 because of it high production value and what be and in 1968 and an innovative approach to the war film . remember too that i haven not see it since 1969. but it do make a strong impression . the long day die must be one of the most vivid antiwar film ever make . it achieve this simply by portray in extremely realistic term the action of a handful of soldier in northwestern europe in 1944 45. no film before this one show war at the infantry squad level with so much brutal detail and and all in a coldly dispassionate way that let the action speak for themselves . there be no preaching and no sentimentality and no comic relief and no complicated scenario . unfortunately and there no subtlety either . partly because of their situation try to stay alive the character come across a flat and familiar cliché . a entertainment and the film doesn not make it and though it be clearly not intend to entertain . it be intend to slug you over the head with the misery and horror of world war ii and modern war in general . this be twenty year before platoon and thirty before save private ryan and both of which be far more watchable film . here the flat and generally disagreeable character and the lack of an actual plot and and the realistically unpleasant image ( include what may be the first on screen vomit in theatrical history ) make the film hard to sit through and though it be only 95 minute . so and 10 star for production and realism and 4 star for the feeling you will have when it over and a bonus star for have it heart in the right place . average represent 8. like carl foreman underrate the victor and an equally downbeat but more interesting and think provoke film and the long day die seem not to be on dvd . why not . both film have be on cable a number of time .