80 years after the end of WWII and it appears we're finally ready to have action films that have German soldiers as the protagonists. But it's not that cut and dried: just like in Das Boot back in 1981, the safest way to go is still to have them cocooned safely away from where the actual atrocities towards civilians take place, this time inside a tank on a solo mission to bring back a single officer with secret documents from deep behind enemy lines.
So, for a good long while it's a standard actioner, and a pretty efficient one, with the crew negotiating hazard after hazard, interspersed with them questioning the purpose of it all and whether there'll be anything left to go back home to. This places The Tank above most of its Hollywood equivalents, so it's unfortunate that it goes off its tracks in the end sequence, which dismantles everything that has transpired before it with half-baked metaphysical aspirations.
6/10
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