This film showed a lot of promise but just missed the mark for me. I enjoyed the story and the characters and there were some really great moments of comedy. I thought the main 3 actors were great, as they always are. It is only very loosely based on history but they did basically say that at the beginning so I didn't mind that but if that's going to bother you I'd give this a miss. I enjoyed the focus on the way that black American soldiers were treated in the war, feel like that's something I don't often see discussed. And whoever was in charge of the set design for this film did a great job, some of the set design was stunning.

So it had a lot of potential to be great but there was just something missing. The main thing was that I felt like this film was desperately trying to be quirky but didn't want to fully commit which meant it just felt a bit like a mediocre Wes Anderson rip-off. The first half of the film was like a string of celebrity cameos like they were trying to show off the fact that they spent their whole budget on casting. The costumes were not as good as they could have been for the time period, there was no particularly interesting cinematography, the soundtrack was unmemorable. There was just nothing about this that made it stand out which is unfortunate because of how good it could have been.