Review – Battle of the Bulge

This thing is nearly twice as long as a normal war movie. Unfortunately, it’s not twice as good. What we get here is one of those ensemble war pictures that follow several different characters during the course of one of the key battles of World War Two. Robert Shaw’s performance as a stereotypical SS tank commander stands out, but the rest of the celebs are fairly interchangeable. Clearly they spent a lot of money on the production, because it’s loaded with tanks (and this was back in the day before such things could be easily generated by computers, so they actually had to go out and get the real thing). So it’s an epic movie about an epic battle, but not much more. Mildly amusing