Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

SimonJack Operation Dragoon has long been forgotten as a major campaign and Allied victory of WW II. The invasion of southern France at that time was anti-climactic to the D-Day landings at Normandy more than two months earlier. The Allies were pushing the Germans back in the north. The news headlines were filled with the coming liberation of Paris. It would begin in just four days and end a week later with German surrender of the city on Aug. 25, 1944.Yet, this Allied operation on Aug. 15 was one of the more successful of the war – and least costly to the Allies. Almost 200,000 Allied troops were involved. The operation lasted from Aug 15 to Sept. 14. It routed the German Army Group G from southern France. American and French casualties were about 10,000 each, and German losses were 7,000 killed and 20,000 wounded. About 130,000 Germans trapped by the operation later surrendered. The resistance to the Allies was much less than at Normandy. The German forces in the area of the assault were less than 100,000 men. Since this had not been a combat front, the Germans didn't use their well-trained and ready combat troops to control the area. So, these mostly were lower tier troops. They included older men, previously wounded, and little trained units from conquered countries. Their weapons and equipment also were sub-standard. For that reason, the combat scenes in this film, "Saints and Soldiers – Airborne Creed," don't seem so outlandish. The American paratroopers were combat hardened by this time, and they were going against much inferior troops. They would indeed be much more effective in downing the enemy. This film shows three men from the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team that spearheaded the operation with a jump behind enemy lines. This force was formed from the 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment and other units. The 517th was a late-organized Army unit, formed in 1943 in Georgia. But, it served in some of the tough battles of WW II in Europe. It saw combat in the Italian Campaign, in Operation Dragoon and at the Battle of the Bulge as part of the 101st Airborne Division. The jump of Operation Dragoon was the only combat jump this Airborne unit made. The unit was part of the 17th Airborne Division when it was deactivated in 1946. The 17th was slated to take part in the airborne invasion of Japan. This is a good film in the sense of showing some combat encounters, and its development of the three main characters. The script suffered some in its believability for two things. The first was the repeating of the airborne creed a number of times. Once, in discussion between a couple of GIs I can believe. But as a former paratrooper myself, I don't know that anyone ever went around exclaiming the airborne creed as such. And, I doubt very much if GIs in combat would be doing that. So, this film differs significantly in that from, say, "Band of Brothers." And, not one of these GIs smoked. Nor did anyone else in the film. I'm a former smoker myself, and am glad that's something of my past. But the likelihood of three GIs together during WW II who didn't smoke – and then meeting up with resistance fighters and others – no one of whom smoked, is a stretch beyond believability. Otherwise, the acting, plot, action and technical aspects of this movie were quite good. If nothing else, it's a good film to show GIs wrestling with killing, even in war. And, it's a small record of a WW II operation not shown in any other movie to my knowledge.

kliffnotes It is just historically inaccurate. The one GI's girlfriend gives him a camera and tells him to send her a photo, every week. Duh,is it a digital camera or a Polaroid? Of course not so where does he get that film developed...Adolf's One Hour Photo? Also, this chick's hair is very modern looking, definitely not a 40's hairstyle. When the GI with the mo-hawk is with his original unit, he is wearing a plain helmet. Later, it sprouts netting. The one guy's helmet has a paratrooper chin strap and the other guy's does not. In addition, the french resistance girl has zip up boots, not authentic to the period. We make a big deal of D- Day and the war in Europe but keep in mind that 69% of the German Army and 90% of the elite troops were deployed on the Russian Front.OK, enough of the negative. I do feel that the actors tried really hard to do a good job and Lincoln Hoppe had very good intentions, trying to show soldiers on both sides as people, not just stereotypes. As a whole, this is a watchable and entertaining movie. I enjoyed the special features as well as the film.

Alex Heaton (azanti0029) Of the deluge of low budget World War II movies coming out of both Europe and the USA this little indie effort is better than most. I can see where great care has been given here to getting people who sound German to speak German, French to speak French. It may not have been shot in the South of France, but the DOP has spent some considerable care to give the film the warm tones of that part of Europe and the CGI shots blend nicely to convince of this too. The plot is a little wish washy, men taking part in Dragoon, (The invasion of the South of France, August 1944) end up helping the French resistance on an unrelated mission. The number of characters is kept small and simple and the action scenes are nicely directed. The acting here is earnest, the cast aren't going to win any Oscars, but they don't make the mistake of over selling their performances like so many inexperienced actors would. Everyone here does a good job. Its a small film and a small story, so don't be expecting Band of Brothers, but its well made with care and love and a great example of how to make a small but interesting film, as opposed to the terrible 'Rhineland' which felt like a bunch of re-in-actors out on a jolly. Here you can tell everyone involved wanted to make a good authentic film with a bit of heart, they succeeded. If you liked the original your unlikely to be too disappointed, I personally wasn't and this has made it into my WW2 Collection.

almeidapm Plot: World War II, and 3 airborne soldiers get trapped behind enemy lines after a night drop.This is a prequel to the movie Saints & Soldiers, but it has no real connection with the characters from the 1st movie. The only things in common is that both are set in WWII and that the movie is more about relationships between enemies than war itself.This movie was not as good as the 1st one, but still a very entertaining movie. There are no bad people in war only people doing their jobs. The movie really shows how in German side there were good people, as there were in the American side, and in the end nobody really wanted to be there. They just wanted to go home to their families.