Hand-held cameras ruined it

This is not a bad film, but it certainly could have (and should have) been better. For whatever reason, director Nico von Glasow chose to use hand-held cameras throughout, showing nostrils, eyeballs and profiles in extreme close-up while the havoc and murderous chaos of World War II are raging around the edges of the screen. Hand-held cameras have their places, but not in what is ostensibly a war film, which by definition needs expansion. Only on a few occasions are we ever really 'placed' in this film. In many instances, the filming could have been done in someone's back yard. The dizzying (literally) camera work, much of it extreme close-up, had me reeling by the half-way mark. A most peculiar decision by the director.