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Retired 24 year veteran says... I really can't add much insight that many of the other reviews already offer. It's historically bad, costumes rate a "meh", and the weapons...oh, the weapons are CGI wonders of imagination. Imagined by someone with very little to ZERO weapons experience. Seriously, it's a war movie so at the very least they could have Googled, Wikipedia'd, watched a YouTube video or two about the weapons. This has the appearance of a "Call of duty" video game weapons expert with CGI muzzle flashes, zero recoil, and in many cuts, no expended brass being ejected. Hahahahaha!

Okay, all done with the nonsense stuff. I suspect we all know Kelsey Grammer, he's very good. The character he plays however, well, good thing they got Kelsey Grammer to play him. Joe Anderson is a pretty good as well. That said, I didn't think it was the acting that made this movie bad. Bad writing, check! Bad directing, yup! Bad military "stuff" across the board, yeah. The actors, familiar or not, did pretty well with the hands (or lines) they were dealt. I watched it through to the end and only mostly regretted the time spent.

Watched the first 30 minutes, then quit.

The first.1 minute had a parachute drop with 101st, ok... yes that's accurate, but then the sergeant (first character) had a MP40 in has back. He meets a private with a Thompson. So if you are going to have one guy with a Thompson, why give the sergeant a German SMG?

That's where it started, and it didn't get any better. Tried to give characters a backstory, with some dialogue about 'what would you do if you weren't in the war" and answer was "well I wouldn't be here that's for sure!".

Come on... if you want to spend time on development, give them something the audience can relate to.

From the start, there were some red flags I noticed pretty quick. Any period piece has to do due diligence on the locations, costumes, and jargon. The locations were ok, but the uniforms and jargon were off. Their conduct during operations were questionable as well. Generals do not give operational briefings to troops. It runs down-hill for the officers to the sergeants. The sergeants told the soldiers only what they Need-To-Know.

For example, you do not salute while in theatre of operations (combat zone). Saluting to an officer told any would be sniper who they should shoot ant. Also, officers did not wear shiny rank or medals for that same reason. Army issued field rank would be subdued for all ranks. The shiny stuff was only worn in garrison.

A two star general would not typically be that far forward to enemy lines. Generals could not be in-harms-way, the capture of military intelligence from a high ranking officer could be devastating.

As for jargon, the Army loves its acronyms. In a movie, you have to sprinkle some in to make the movie believable; too much and you lose the civilians.

During WWII, the Army was still segregated. Soldiers of color typically served as cooks, drivers, and maintenance workers with only a few exceptions. President Truman ordered desegregation in 1948.

The costumes (uniforms) were close, but they obviously didn't have the budget to do the movie justice.

For a few thousand dollars the producers could have hired a military consultant and got most of this if not all this right.

Hiring a few head-liners is not going to be save a movie. The devil is in the details.

Overall, the characters were likable and most were believable.

I have thought about this for a long time and will share my thoughts. There are so many low-budget war films out there and they all share the same qualities: less than 10 soldiers on each side running around a forest which could be your backyard; no wide angle or crane camera shots - everything looks like it was filmed with an iPhone; and less than riveting acting and dialogue. There are occasionally actors familiar from the 80's like Toms Berringer or Sizemore. I'm sure it is the same in all genres but I notice it most in war films. They just don't cut it. Maybe there is the odd Blair Witch low budget gem out there but I haven't found it.

I find it difficult to describe how awful this film is. The characters are all one dimensional, the enemy (German troops) is portrayed as incompetent boobs, and the dialogue is shallow.

In supposedly hot combat zones, American soldiers discuss whether an officer is dead or not while the Germans assemble to machine gun them down, but to no avail, one of the good guys sneaks up behind and kills all them! Then calmly goes about his day.

Dialogue is all trite, filled with cliches and old, tiring stories that have been done a dozen times before, with some minor change. Truthfully, this production was more like the "Apocalypse Now" production done in Rushmore than an actual war film.

The Americans are guarding this 'bridge' that if the Nazi's get control of the Americans will loose the war. The bridge is over a creek that a toddler could cross without getting his feet wet. Not sure why they didn't show a big awesome bridge from somewhere else, but they didn't.

The French resistance fighter took out countless Germans without ever missing a shot and never needed to reload his bolt action rifle

So basically a really dumb (almost non existent) storyline - so so acting.

Totally a good movie 'Not to Watch' unless you are into pain. 'I still Can't believe I watched the Whole thing'

A World War ll movie with no military discipline or courtesy. This movie is so amateurish it is horrible; it is also sloppy. Uniforms are wrong; military weapons are incorrect; story line is pathetic. This is a high school story which is nothing but dribble. How anyone should be happy to make this movie only indicates how desperate they are for the work. What a complete waste of my time. I wanted to like it, but I could not; I laughed in too many places that were funny to me, but the writer did not intend this. This is a movie the writer should return to college for a history of World War ll and learn how 6 June 1944 was accomplished. This to a movie that should languish on the shelf.

Murder Company was an exciting watch. The story follows a group of United States soldiers in the midst of a D-day invasion as they aim to take down Nazis. Fun for war history and action movie fans. I was kept on my toes the whole time. Great characters made the story engaging. The acting was top-tier specifically from Grammer (Frasier, Cheers, Boss), Marini (Sex and the City, Switched at Birth) and Niles (Lie Hard). Although the film is a war drama, there are still light-hearted and comedic aspects. Enjoy the jam-packed action and moments of hope, resilience, faith, a brotherhood. There is something for everyone.

Had to make this just to say that while the movie is indefensibly bad, a bunch of these reviewers are talking about the soldier at the beginning having a German gun. These reviewers apparently have no idea what an M3 Grease Gun is and thus shouldn't be criticizing weapons in any movie.

So don't complain about people not doing their homework when you haven't done yours either.

In regards to the movie, it definitely has the feeling of a student film. Like one of those someone made as their final assignment when they hit their Kickstarter limit. But there are certainly worse ways to spend an hour and a half.

It's D-day. American soldiers are scattered behind German lines. General Haskel (Kelsey Grammer) has a mission for five disparate soldiers from different companies. They have to rescue a French resistance fighter who would lead them to an important Nazi general in charge of transportation.

This is your basic war B-movie. I don't recognize any of the main actors except for Kelsey Grammer. Most of the budget was probably spent on him. He did some scenes with the main guys and then did a bunch of other scenes with a bunch of nobodies. It probably took him a week, five business days. The action ranges from passable to poorly staged. There are two big battles when around five good guys kill about fifty Nazis. They do throw in a couple of death scenes for the good guys. There is an evil Nazi at the end of road. This is not good.

The plot was pretty flimsy. The acting performances were reasonable considering everyone is an unknown other than Grammar with an almost cameo appearances. The fighting action would have been better if it was more realistic. Also some of the killings were just plain lazy film making. I am not a fan of 20 foot apart open ground machine gun battles. Much of it was not realistic, and some of it was quite cheesy. Nevertheless, it was not a complete waste of time, and it was slightly entertaining. Music was uninspired to say the least. Dialog was not great, but not terrible either. Direction was quite weak. It is entirely forgettable.

If you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a trainwreck in slow motion, look no further than Murder Company. It's a cinematic catastrophe that manages to be both hilarious and tragic, often at the same time.

The script must have been written on napkins during a drunken game of Mad Libs, because the dialogue is so disjointed and nonsensical that it feels like the actors are improvising half the time. Scratch that-improv would have been more coherent.

Let's talk about the acting. Imagine a high school play where everyone forgot their lines and decided to wing it. Now, imagine it's a high school where no one knows how to act.

Murder Company is a film that will make you appreciate the artistic merits of a blank screen. It's a disasterpiece that must be seen to be disbelieved. If you're looking for a laugh at the expense of filmmaking, gather your friends, pop some popcorn, and prepare to marvel at the sheer ineptitude on display. Just don't say I didn't warn you.

I forgot to mention the magic weapons that never required reloading throughout the whole movie.

At the start of the movie they said it was 2 days before D -day... Across the top of the soldiers at the start there were 3 C-47 aircraft that flew overhead... They were painted with invasion stripes which is totally wrong... Because of security no aircraft with invasion stripes flew in case the Germans copied them... The whole point of the stripes was so that Allied aircraft could be distinguished from Germans... After the scene I switched off... I don't know why they made such a basic mistake, but it set the tone for the movie and for me that was enough to spoil it for me... I wish them well...

This is horrible. It's like a MAGA view of the war; we good, they imbeciles. Someone spent a lot of money to make a really lousy movie the right-wing nut bags who always scream "socialism" and "America First" can claim is an epic portrayal of American exceptionalism. The Germans are Starship troopers and the Americans carry unlimited ammunition with them at all times. This is terrible and they want me to write 200 more characters about it. Bad, it's just bad. The builds have modern materials and the uniforms are not authentic. Really, find something else to watch; you'll thank me. Over and out.

For someone with some historical perpective on W2; a laughable bad movie w B actors and apparently no budget filmed in Bulgaria. Advance 82nd paratroopers land 2 days before D day and a full US military camp is already there? Then they walk from Normandy to Bastogne in Belgium in 2 days to kill a German general? The initial mountaineous landscape has nothing to do w the actual hedgerows in Normandy ... Then the narrative mixes up the 12th and 21th panzer division advancing from Toulouse (it was the 2th). German and uniforms, markings, weaponry all wrong and changing all the time on the same characters ... At least the dueling scar on the bad guy was correct on his left cheek ... and the 91th Wehrmacht division did fight in Normandy in June 1944.

Acting was somewhat better than all above.

Enjoyed all the wrongness quite a bit!

Do not watch this film.

"Geezer teaser" with all the right iconography and Kelcey on the cover, I should have known better.. Outrageously inaccurate from the very start.

I tried to find something to keep me going but barely made it passed Mr. Grammer's first phoned in scene, clearly shot in a make shift "studio" at his convenience, with the rest of the "production" filmed in the woods behind a friend of the lighting guy's scrapyard.

The dialogue wasn't even funny bad and the lack of any military etiquette between the badges of rank was appalling. Casting therin was also absurdly askew with the private who should've been sergeant and the sergeant who should have been sooky medic.

Whatever happened here was a tremendous waste of daddy's money. Not to mention mine. I thought burning the cover and frizbeeing the disc might make up for it somehow but it did not. Even writing this review hasn't helped wash any of the grot off..

Others have commented on gear, tactics, etc. That's not my area so I'm avoiding it. But I do know the history of Overlord quite well and I've visited the battleground, so first question is "What's with all these wooded hills in Normandy!?". Normandy is less than 15% forested, and the areas where the US paratroopers dropped (in the early hours of the 6th BTW, not on the 4th) where swampy fields.

The only bridge I know of that the US paras had to defend in the early hours and days after the landing was the bridge at La Fière, which was a road causeway bridge across a river surrounded by flooded fields. It was defended by men under the command of Lt Dolan, not a General. It was important, maybe not as important as the "Ham and Jam" bridges at the other end of the battlefield which were held by British paras, but it was a important. It definitely was *not* so important that "lose this bridge, we lose the war" as the "General" says at about 1:04. He talks as if there were only one beach, not five!

Perhaps the biggest issue is the mission "Murder Company" is given. First, there was someone whose orders were required before Panzer units could move. That someone was Hitler. He was asleep and no one woke him up which was very useful. Even when he woke up he didn't want to order all units in France to Normandy because he still thought it was a faint. However one important unit was ordered to move on the 7th, the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" who were stationed in Montauban, about 50Km North of Toulouse, since Toulouse is mentioned in the film this does indeed seem to be the unit that the fictional "Murder Division" that must be stopped at all costs is based upon. Several huge problems with that, first Montauban is about 710Km from the US para drop zones and would take a week to get to marching 100Km a day. When they arrived it would have been too late because 2nd Panzer left on the 8th June (delayed from the 7th) and it's unlikely they would have bumped into them on the way since 2nd Panzer had to keep changing it's route due to actions by the Maquis. Which brings me to the second point... There *was* a concerted effort to delay the 2nd Panzer, and it was remarkably successful because the advanced units didn't reach the Normandy battlefields until 15th June and some units didn't arrive until the 30th. However that concerted effort to delay the 2nd Panzer was a French/British operation and very much *not* a US/French operation. It involved large numbers of Maquis, not just one man, and the help of the British SOE Pimento network, led by Anthony Brooks, aka Alphonse. As far as I am aware no US paras were involved in this operation.

What really annoys me about this film is that there really is no need to make stuff up to make a film about Overlord showing any or all nationalities as heroic! If you want to make a heroic film about US paras, there is lots of material, some of it never touched by any blockbuster movie I'm aware of. The "Time Ghost Army" channel on YouTube did a 24 hour documentary about D-Day and I think anyone who watches that will be convinced of the truth of that statement. If, on the other hand you want to make a film about the heroic effort to delay 2nd Panzer then you absolutely could do that based on the real stories of the Maquis and the British SOE, because, yes, a senior German officer was killed by the Maquis, Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe, and in retaliation the citizens of Oradour-sur-Glane were massacred, only 6 out of 648 survived.