recap represent a band of five young american men and all that be leave of a platoon hit hard during the ardenne offensive during the wwii get the assignment a a forward outpost and to look for enemy activity . theyre in really bad condition and both physically and mentally and and think they have strike gold when their outpost be in an abandon but once plush mansion full with food . but after a while there be some enemy activity and and it be very odd . not hostile and but odd . it seem like there be a german squad out there and in equally bad condition and that want nothing more than to surrender . comment represent base on a novel and my guess that the novel be much well but the story doesn not seem to translate very well to the big screen . indeed it be a different war movie and much more about the mental pressure during wartime than fight and battle . but i can almost feel that scene that must have be full of suspense and full of uncertainty and unknown element and just fall flat in the movie . it be not suspenseful and just different and in many way absurd . many time people just act insane and and the reason be unclear or at best hint at . so when this mental pressure fail to come through and the main building piece of the entire story and i think the story fell through . it wasn not good and it wasn not interesting and it do not keep me on the edge and it do not really send a message . actually it do nothing . the cast be interest and many young actor that then turn into star in begin of their career . the acting be good and but not stellar and and a few character also fell through into the absurd zone . much of that too i feel be due to that this story and these character need the time and space and pace give in a novel and that they can not be give here . and go halfway definitely isn not good enough . 4/10 .