could have been so much better

The overall problem with this film (as with many low budget productions which tank, pardon the pun) was that it tries to do too much with too little. You cannot hope to achieve success by recreating historically large clashes on the Eastern Front & Normandy without CGI and using re-enactors & sub standard special effects. You simply do not have the budget, so cut your cloth accordingly! The film would've been infinitely better if they'd taken the decision to limit the setting. If your focus is the relationship between a German soldier and a nurse in occupied France, why spend the first 15 or 20 minutes portraying combat action from the Russian front? Why even try squeezing the vastness of the Normandy assault into the story when maybe 1 or 2 set battle scenes would've sufficed? Whole thing just ends up looking thin & lacking in any sort of atmosphere or tension, even though the filmmakers had access to an impressive amount of authentic-looking vehicles, weapons, uniforms, etc.

On the acting front, things were not much better. To be fair to Tino Struckmann he didnt do a bad job with his part. He was the best of the bunch. And it's hard to believe Damian Chapas went from starring in the amazing Blood In Blood Out 20 years ago to this farce. Probably the least convincing Gestapo agent I've ever seen on screen. Also, why choose an actress who has obviously had a good amount of plastic surgery to play the lead female role? This is supposed to be 1944! And why is she wearing a miniskirt? To titillate the crew and the re-enactors maybe? As I mentioned before (and as stated in the Goofs section), they've used loads of re-enactors to play front line soldiers. Many are men over 50, overweight, etc. Again, it just makes the whole thing look amateurish. I realise it helps with costs but at least be selective in regards to age. It's laughable seeing a man in his 60s playing an SS corporal in 1944.