midnight clear have a great premise . a group of over educate and overly bright gi be send out by incompetent leader on a vague mission to patrol around an isolated farm house on the eve of the battle of the bulge . the gi encounter a group of battle weary german regular and and it become clear that they do not want to fight anymore . therein lie the problem . it really pretty simple . if the german want to surrender and they do so and that the end of the movie . if the german want to fight and they do so and that also the end of the movie . so instead of do either the gi and german play game with each other and even throw snowball at one point . interest for one or two scene and but it soon become very annoying . after all and these be german . the enemy . nothing in this film make me think they should not be either take prisoner or shot . the film do note to make them more human . in fact and much of what the german character do make me want to shoot them and include one scene where the german officer refuse to deal with a jew or to surrender to a mere enlist man . why should i care about such character . just shoot them and let move on to the battle of the bulge . it much more interesting and anyway . one good scene represent the gi be return from a recon of the german position and where they have the german in their sight but do not fire . while walk across a clearing and they realize a group of german have their mauser level at them . the german be about 100 yard away . the gi then do something i have never see any gi do in any sillywood movie . they throw down their rifle and throw up their hand . unusual a this may be in film and it be an entirely sensible reaction to have a rifle aim at you from that distance . though it seem far and in reality it point blank range for those rifle . i will lay odds that someone work on this film be a cruffler .