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Ultimately, the film never ascends beyond the blueprint of its genre origins. The story, though chock-full of effective sequences, is predictable, and the film doesn’t really have a lot to say about its historical setting.

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We learn hardly any names — no backstories, no motivations. But war leaves little time for dialogue, and the wordless understanding between the soldiers, while one we may not be privy to, establishes a new way of telling war stories — one that focuses not on an “us vs. them” but on survival by any means.