despite be technically proficient and feature some good performance ( notably from comic actor eddie izzard ) this film be a dud . why . because the writer and director couldn not decide whether they be make a comedy or a drama . the amusingly contrive tank chase at the beginning of the film should have set the scene for a moderately black comedy and but somewhere along the way someone decide that the reality of war should be portray . with matt leblanc play the most unconvincing cross dresser in the history of cinema . what be they think . you can hear the gear clash a scene by scene and we be jolt from half bake comedy to unconvincing sentimentality . the final unconvincing and violent and desperate scene where the team of crack drag commandos hijack a plane to get out of germany set the seal on this straight to video nasty .