Come Out Fighting

Ive seen bad WWII films, but this one takes the cake. Absolutely AWFUL, so bad in fact that all remaining copies should be binned. Starting off with dreadful CGI graphics including a non-existant ME-262 over the Channel in mid 1944, to P-51's strafing CGI railroad trains... The actual WWII vehicles used are nice to see, but the dreadful and corny acting, total lack of military discipline and paper thin plot lines make the vehicles and weapons superflous. As if it wasn't bad enough, the sub plot was taken straight out of the classic KELLY'S HEROS with the tank platoon commander using several of Oddball's (Donald Sutherland) lines and the mailroom sergeant mimicking Sergeant Crapgame (Don Rickles) Avoid seeing this film if you want to avoid putting your blood pressure through the roof seeing a WWII story utterly butchered by juvenile and childish writing, comical screenplays and dreadful acting. An absolute dog turd of a WWII film.... AVOID.

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Trailer—Come Out Fighting

I will watch Micheal Jai White in anything. That can be a bad thing sometimes as movies like this show. The sound mixing is terrible, the music and sound effects are louder than the talking which makes it hard to hear what's being said. The special effects are very low budget. It looks like a made for tv movie. The acting isn't very good but that can mostly be put down to the poor script. The idea of an all black unit in the army being told they can't go after their lost black lieutenant as they "can't spear the man power" while actively trying to save a white lieutenant in the same area is actually a good premise for a movie. Sadly this doesn't live up to the concept.

It's no secret anymore that Hollywood constructs movies in a modular way. They write and shoot a bunch of scenes and then they try to combine them in random ways and show the results to test audiences. The combinations which make the best score are pushed forward to later iterations of editing and, eventually, to a "final" cut for theatrical release. The problem with this approach is that you get a disjointed set (not a sequence) of unrelated scenes rather than a wholesome story - in the best case scenario. Realistically, there will be cracks. For example, when a character references past events, it does not match what was actually shown (or, sometimes, what was later put into CGI - the actors don't know what they are talking about, those events never happened for them, they happened only inside GPUs of some server farm). That's not how storytelling works!

How did this get made? I wish I knew people that are okay seeing piles of their money set on fire. They spent a lot of money on some things. Not terrible CGI dog fighting, physical US and German tanks moving around a battle field, hundreds of small arms, uniforms, and a half dozen B actors. And spent zero dollars on other things, like writers, military advisors, directors, cinematographers, editors, etc...how? Like when a truly gifted film maker gets his hands on a microscopic budget, they can make something compelling. You give a child with zero self awareness a bucket of money, they have people throwing hand grenades at a mortar team 200 yards away. Or tanks that stop moving once they are fired upon. Where were the adults?

First of all, there is the basic premise: that there are two types of soldiers. One type of soldier is always competent and effective. The other type is not only always bumbling and incompetent, but arrogant, nasty and mean-spirited to boot. Then there is the glaring incorrect portrayals of military protocol and tactics. In this film, officers routinely salute non-coms and hold the salute until the non-coms return it, not the other way round which is reality. It depicts an Army without coordination of infantry, armor and artillery. In one scene, artillery and forward armor are both firing on the same position simultaneously while forward motorized infantry are engaging that target in close quarters battle. Insane. And then there is the decision to have German characters speaking English with German accents. Reminded me of Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. The acting is not terrible but the dialog is amateurish. It is just an all around bad movie.

Honest to God, the WORST film I've seen in a long time. I felt so embarrassed for the actors because the script was idiotic. Not worth more comments. But I'm 180 characters short. Unrealistic, terribly written, incorrect weapons, incorrect uniforms, incorrect military courtesy - just an unmitigated disaster. Even the CGI wasn't consistent. Oh - and the voice recognition software was entertaining in its innaccuracy. The whole story line was ridiculous. The P51s we're returning from a mission at about 200 feet altitude- never happened. Then the pilot says they attacked the ME 262s - buts that not what happened. Don't waste your 5.99.

Bullets going through a machine gun belt that obviously hadn't been fired. Men falling dead before they had been shot. Poor writing and directing. Was there a military advisor for this film? If so, they should never work on a WWII movie ever again. The plot had a chance but it was executed poorly. Could have been a great movie given the subject matter but it never reached its potential. In one scene the lieutenant tells his men to take up defensive positions as they begin a charge towards the enemy. How is charging towards the enemy a defensive position? This was only one example of the poor script writing, producing and directing. Towards the end, the General Patton character says, "some say patriotism is dying for your country, let's go make patriots out of those Germans." Patron's actual quote is, Patton : "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." At least get that right.

During WWII, Lt Frank Ross (Kellan Lutz) gets shot down behind enemy lines and parachutes. Saving Lt. Ross has become a priority. Michael Jai White is part of a company of African-Ameican mine specialists. They also have a small tank fighting unit and are typically used as fodder. They cross paths with their own white soldiers and their leader gets sent back only to be attacked by German soldiers. The production was less about war and more about the race relations. It didn't know which way to go and as a result failed as a war picture and as a drama about race. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.