One of the best?

I think this was one of the best war movies I've seen in a long time. I find it very intersting that a film about a fairly insignificant conflict...

(requisite aside to head off some of the inevitable and nauseatingly prevalent snooty comments about ignorant Americans and their limited world-view: I understand perfectly well that this war had profound repercussions in Argentinian, and to a lesser extent, British society, but it hardly holds the international significance of other conflicts of the recently passed century, e.g. the first and second world wars...)

...was so well orchestrated, and manged to deliver such a profound impact on the viewer. I really found myself in the shoes of the protagonists, feeling the helpless frustration with their cruel and incompetent officers and governance, and the overwhelming technological and qualitative military superiority of the enemy, despite having to operate thousands of miles from their home shores with outnumbered forces.

The scene in the bunker with the two surviving main characters huddling under the bombardment, one gravely wounded and driven mad with the shelling, screaming in desparation for it to stop; the other shaking, shedding tears, and hiding his personal effects in a crack in the wall was truly compelling. A scene with that kind of gravitas would do proud any film's rendition of even such lunacy inspiring places in history as the Somme, Bastogne, or Kursk. I haven't seen anything to capture my sympathies and imagination on this level since Der Untergang.