![]() ![]() Viewers wary of the morality of its German viewpoint and its explicitness might find that it is fundamentally about humanity in general as a victim of war. Its setting on the World War Two Eastern Front, its gruesomeness, and its risk-taking viewpoint on ugly combat from the German side, have tended to count against fair assessment of its considerable artistic achievements. It deserves to be ranked in the same great war movie company as Apocalypse Now, Das Boot, Full Metal Jacket, Paths Of Glory, Saving Private Ryan, Seven Samurai, and Zulu. ![]() It is one of director Sam Peckinpah's two finest works - the other being The Wild Bunch. Cross Of Iron is a masterpiece, one of the greatest anti-war, anti-authoritarian movies.
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