It was inevitable. No rules. No guidelines. But I personally cannot include such greats as Invasion USA, Missing in Action, or Delta Force as war movies. 
I’d sooner count Aliens as a war movie.
Game over, man!
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“Hero Bunker” THE. WORST. I accidentally sat through the latter half of it waiting for a main feature to come on. I can’t remember what the movie I had gone to see was, by the time it started my mind was cowering, whimpering, in the darkest recesses of my skull it could find…
Cheers,
M
In my book, Breakthrough, the “sequel” to Cross of Iron was terrible… as was Windtalkers…
Battle of Bulge… Pearl Harbor…
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Windtalkers is terrible and some how still a guilty pleasure of mine 
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This one has always rated up there as one of the worst I have ever seen. It was so bad that it was released under at least four different titles.
“The Greatest Battle”, “The Great Attack”, “The Biggest Battle”, and “Battle Force”
At one point it showed a German armor column and they were in M113s. 
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2008’s The Red Baron.
Visually the movie is impressive and I think they did a good job with the dogfight scenes. And for once not all the German planes were red painted. But, why fictionalise so much? Meeting and becoming friends with Roy Brown was too much of a stretch of credibility.
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Sorry Arnold, but I’d say ‘Commando’
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Quick General Knowledge test. Who’s going to tell me the connection between this movie:
and this one:
Cheers,
M
I agree.
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The all time worst for me is Tunnel Rats, a 2022 release followed by Devotion, another recent release.
Cajun 
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I felt the same way about Red Tails. I was really expecting a good flick, given that George Lucas was the executive producer. Plus it came out right about the same time I started building a chopper made out of real P-51 parts, based on CPT Turner’s Skipper’s Darlin’ III.
An utter disappointment, I don’t know if I can pck the absolute worst war film I’ve ever seen (there are so many to choose from) but ths one ranks up there.
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I forgot to mention Dunkirk. I like Nolan’s movies, but Dunkirk was so boring for me.
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I agree! The 1958 movie Dunkirk was better.
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I agree about “Red Tails”. To me it was a second rate attempt to ride on the coat tails of “The Tuskegee Airmen” TV movie of 1995
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“The Hurt Locker” was mind numbing drivel, so called bomb dispisal experts becoming snipers with no training as well as predictable characters.
the only reason it got oscars was that the female director hassled people to vote for the film, so much so she was banned from attending the awards.
i watched halfway through the film before i switched it off and i usually sit most film regardless how bad they are.
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Have to admit I haven’t seen that one, but haven’t heard much good. The clips I saw just looked like the typical Lucas CGI effects fest. Always thought the 90’s Tuskegee Airmen with Laurence Fishbourne was a decent movie. At least that had real P-51’s!
Dunkirk I thought was a brave effort, but ended up being a confusing mess by trying to show too much and flitting around between scenes and time. I also can’t excuse the lack of effort to disguise the modern day backdrops and buildings of Dunkirk and current day train coaches. It lost the authenticity of the period.
The original with John Mills is much better.
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If it could be called a “War movie,” then 1997’s Sci-Fi Starship Troopers is horrible…a movie that follows Robert A. Heinlein’s book (which I read).
“A new kind of enemy…a new kind of war” is what the film’s poster stated.
It’s all about having the “right tool for the right job.” They didn’t in the movie. Missing are the power armor suits, jetpacks, visors, and high-tech stuff in the book because I suppose it was too hard and expensive for Hollywood to produce. Thus, you had masses of actors running around in plastic armor and firing rifles and bullets that had almost no effect on “The Bugs” and getting torn to shreds in mass human wave attacks. It’s obvious that high explosives, rifle grenades, and hand grenades were needed to destroy The Bugs, but the Troopers and officers and high command never understood this. It’s supposed to be a dark comedy, but I didn’t find it funny when Troopers were torn apart limb by limb and eaten alive so many times. The same goes for the CGI StarshipTroopers animation…bullets instead of grenades and explosives…and mass fatalities. These Troopers never learned to mass produce rocket launchers or multiple grenade launchers (Miktor 40mm AGL) or much better weapons to deal with The Bugs = lack of strategy and tactics to create such a mess of body count. Sure, it is Science Fiction, but just don’t fight like the Starship Troopers! 
And the same went for human and Bug mind control in the game…another mess.
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That film is an absolute mess. Terrible acting and dialogue. I don’t think I’ve ever managed to watch it all the way through.
Never been able to find a copy of the book, so I can’t make a comparison with the source material.
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Gods and Generals was pretty bad.