Film Review – War Pigs

“War Pigs” is an attempt to revive a classic, meat-on-the-bones approach to a World War II story, focusing on crusty, cynical men as they do battle with Nazis and their own secret reservoirs of combat shock. It’s a broad picture from director Ryan Little (“Forever Strong”), with nearly enough B-movie ambition to power its vision for a war film, working to generate enough leathery performances and entertaining training montages to help fog the reality that the production is spending next to nothing on anything besides costumes and digital effects. “War Pigs” is a cheap effort, but not without a few charms. It just takes a little too much work to locate the positives as Little stages action in what appears to be his backyard. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com