Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Tockinit not horrible nor great

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

wattsnc A Battalion is lost in the Argonne in this amazing movie with action and wits. With everyone falling in love with the soldiers and seeing World War 1 for what it really is. This is an all around great movie that should go down as one of the best movies of the 2000s that everyone should watch.

SnoopyStyle In 1918 and six weeks before the end of the war, Gen. Alexander orders an attack on the Argonne forest in France. New York lawyer Major Whittlesey (Rick Schroder) disagrees with the order but leads his men into the attack anyways. Alexander pushes Whittlesey forward despite the French having already withdrawn. Poor communications and general confusion leave Whittlesey and his more than 500 men stranded with everybody else retreating back to their trenches. They are surrounded by German forces while the Allies search for their exact location.This is a well made war movie considering it's only a TV movie. The action is superbly shoot. The sets are good and muddy. Schroder gives an effective performance as the sincere warrior with a conscience. Most of the cast does well. The true story is compelling patriotism and filled with good tension. It is a simple but impressive story.

GUENOT PHILIPPE Well, I am not a historian, especially about WW1. And I read many good comments on IMDb, just before watching this movie. I guess everything is quite accurate, very well documented by the makers of this film, with great care. I won't argue about the quality of this tale inspired from actual events. It is amazingly described: characters, sets, brutal, fierce, bloody fights, men to men, face to face, in a total blood and guts orgy of violence. I think there will be a before and an after SAVING PRIVATE RYAN in the war movie history. I mean about the fighting sequences.But something bothers me, in this feature, annoys me at a scale you can't even imagine. The screenplay emphasizes too much on the good Americans vs bad - ugly - Germans. Not Nazis, in WW1, YET...I think that in war, there is no good soldiers and evil ones; except maybe concerning WW2 with the SS elite Nazis troops, guilty of thousands of bloody slaughters. Back to this film, I insist on this because I know the film makers could have done something different. Only show the audience exactly what happened, without trying to make us think this instead of that. That's my own opinion. And, I repeat, it remains a good war movie.

inspectors71 If you can get past the melting-pot platoon clichés, there's a pretty decent movie here. The Lost Battalion tells the story of a unit of American GIs who advance well beyond their support into German-held territory in October, 1918. TLB mixes some Paths of Glory with Saving Private Ryan, but manages to extol the virtues of polyglot GIs in a supremely difficult position: Will they hold together while taking fire from superior forces in the front and callous commanders in the rear?At 90 minutes, the movie is over almost before you really get into it. The narrative spans about six days in the life of 600 men--reduced to barely 200 by the end of the engagement--who act as a "thorn in the side" of a larger, Prussian-led force in the Argonne Forest. They're abandoned by their generals as they make the mistake of advancing to where they're supposed to go, and then having the bad taste not to flee when their support bugs out on both flanks. The movie's strength is how it portrays its clichés--Hey, these aren't clichés about class distinction and combat--this stuff was real! It's a much more watered down type of combat than you would find on the big screen, but the blood and guts--and there's a lot spilled here--doesn't get in the way of watching blue bloods find out what "Italian, Irish, Jew, and Pollack gangsters" can do when they're led well by field-grade officers, and are being taunted and insulted by Prussians and their aristocratic mind-set.Congratulations to the filmmakers! Look for The Lost Battalion on the History Channel or A&E. Watch this and feel proud for more than our men in arms. Feel proud for our society at its best.