Despite the odd clunking mis-step and aspirations above its rank, this has enough going for it to get it home safely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2024

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

There aren't any plot surprises in this low-budget effort, so the success of the mission from a viewer standpoint depends on how well you connect with the characters and their plight.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 29, 2005

A worthy effort that's entirely appropriate for mainstream audiences.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 2005

It has the strengths and the clean lines of a traditional war movie, without high-tech special effects to pump up the noise level.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2004

It's the movie equivalent of singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers' to those already in the choir.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2004

Though Saints and Soldiers' examination of faith, self-sacrifice and morality is not groundbreaking, it always holds our interest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2004

It's hard to get behind characters who feel like lazy archetypes.

| Oct 15, 2004

In his feature film debut, Little uses washed-out color and a you-are-there immediacy to tell a powerful wartime tale of survival, morality and honor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2004

There's little here to make this stand out in an already well-stuffed genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 15, 2004

War is heck in the clean-scrubbed world of Saints and Soldiers, the best low-budget, Mormon World War II epic you'll see this year.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2004

Well mounted, frequently gripping WWII tale of GIs surviving behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge.

| Oct 14, 2004

Little neatly ratchets up the suspense while throwing emotional spotlights on the inner struggles of each combatant trapped in this hostile, frozen wilderness riddled with German troops.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2004

It spends too much time as a small war movie instead of a big-question movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2004

Dubiously aspiring to be a Mormon variation on Saving Private Ryan, this dull, static war movie follows five Allied soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in the waning days of World War II.

| Oct 12, 2004