If you liked Cross of Iron you like this one...
This is a good movie and the SEQUEL to the "Cross of Iron" movie. It's derived from a German Book and if the previous reviewer would have paid attention to the actual movie he would have figured it out, since this one STARTS out on the russian front and was not simply a copy of the first movie....

The Soundtrack is really not worth talking about.

This movie is simply the story of a German group of soldiers towards the end of the war.... It shows the idiocy of war very well... It's not a Saving Private Ryan or D-Day but a good war movie...

Breakthrough - Poor Movie
Both the film and sound track are poor.

Good movie
The previous reviewer mistook this movie for another one with Richard Burton. This movie is about American soldiers in the Normandy campaign. I confess that it was a long time ago when I saw it, but I thought it was a good movie.

A mediocre movie with a terrible soundtrack
"Breakthrough" is an absurd copy of the excellent Sam Peckinpah's movie "Cross of Iron". It lacks from this standpoint originality (even the names of the characters are the same with a different story this time in the western European theather). The recreation of war scenes are fairly good (American tanks are from the Korean War though) and probably the element that barely saves the movie is the fine recreation of German uniforms (for those lovers of german WWII millitaria). The film has a soundtrack that not matches the movie at all. Even with actors of the caliber of Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum, and Kurt Jurgens, "Breakthrough" is undoubtly a mediocre war movie.