A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record. Looks like the proponents of this film could use a little help. OK. Here it comes… Not being much of a historian, and stupid about discards from other pictures, I am unable to evaluate it with these things in mind. Perhaps this lesser intelligence accounts for my being entertained by this flick. It's about a newly-transferred General who concludes that somebody with access to his Command Post is tipping off the Germans with regard to his division's movements. I was not distracted by any inferiority in the easily-seen stuff, such as the acting, sound, lighting, writing, etc. Therefore, I was intrigued by the effort here to identify the source of the "leak". I, for one, would say that FIREBALL FORWARD (which refers to the nickname of the headquarters of the top brass) is worth reconning, and is no more of a gamble as to whether you'll like it or not, than most other movies. One of the worst war flicks I have ever seen. It was on TNT the day before Veterans Day. With so many good war movies out there why did they choose to show this mess. I only watched the entire movie in hopes that it would get better, it didn't!
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