Movie Review - Saints and Soldiers

Don't expect to see anyone you know in this. It's a complete cast of no-namers. And that's a good thing. When you have unknowns, you aren't sitting there thinking "Are the famous stars going to die?" Basically this a group of men who escaped from execution from the Germans and were trying to get to the Allied lines. They overhear Germans talking about a downed Allied plane and reach the airman first. He tells them he is carrying vital intelligence that could prevent the Germans from over powering an Allied position.

So the film then becomes their journey to help him to the closest Allied Command post. We have Deacon, haunted by the memory of killing civilians. Sarge, from Chicago who holds them all together. Kendrick who will do anything for a cigarette. One by one the guys are injured or killed but they do manage to help the RAF Airman back to an American position by disguising themselves as Germans. The film looks excellent and the characters are well played by all the actors. We even see the human side of war, that Germans are just people. Even to the point of helping the Americans get past German positions.