KAOS: Battle of the Bulge

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There are great war movies (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Apocalypse Now, The Great Escape), terrible war movies (Pearl Harbor, Alexander), and there are movies like Battle of the Bulge, which are just... meh.

Directed by Ken Annakin - whose resume includes the likes of Swiss Family Robinson (1960) and The Call of the Wild (1972) - delivers a disappointingly flat depiction of the Ardennes Offensive.

It's nearly three hours long, and feels it. The set piece battles don't make up for long stretches of talking. I can do long stretches of talking. I can watch Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf over and over again, and that's essentially people talking to each other (well, yelling at each other, mostly) for over two hours.

Ideal, perhaps, for nodding off to on a lazy Sunday afternoon, but otherwise, a stodgy misfire.

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