Kathryn Bigelow’s Cross Of Iron, basically, with Harrison Ford’s Soviet submariners the embattled equivalent of James Coburn’s Wehrmacht platoon, both groups of men fighting for their lives in films that perhaps unsurprisingly failed to make a huge impression at the box office. Terrific in parts, with imperious turns from Ford and Liam Neeson, Bigelow handles the action stuff brilliantly though comes close to mawkishness in a tear-stained coda.
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