History YMMV / HornetsNest

%%* LostInMediasRes: One of the film's problems.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: If the movie has a fault (its [[RapeAsDrama rape scenes]] and leaning on the unrealistic side when it comes to the battle scenes aside), is that it can't quite seem to settle on a tone or moral the audience should take from it. We have (essentially) [[ChildSoldier untrained kids]] mowing down countless Nazis left and right, and it can't quite seem to decide if it wants to show war as a [[WarIsGlorious fun adventure]] or as a [[WarIsHell grim reality]] with tragic psychological tolls that come with children becoming killers, and its efforts to have it both ways leave it feeling a bit disjointed.

* KarmaHoudini: Turner to some degree. Also Colonel Jannings, the SS officer who keeps smugly ignoring von Hecht.

* LostInMediasRes: One of the film's problems.

* CompleteMonster: [[SmugSnake Major Taussig]] is a cold, cruel man who is firmly distinct from the other reasonable German Soldiers. [[ThoseWackyNazis A member of the SS]] who has no compunction in committing war crimes, Taussig spends the film trying to murder or torture any "Partisans" he comes across in the Italian countryside. At the film's opening, Taussig shows off his methods by gathering every man, woman and child in the village, lining them up and having them all gunned down without batting an eye before taking the village as a base for his men.

* CompleteMonster: Major Taussig is a cold, cruel man who is firmly distinct from the other reasonable German Soldiers. A member of the SS who has no compunction in committing war crimes, Taussig spends the film trying to murder or torture any "Partisans" he comes across in the Italian countryside. At the film's opening, Taussig shows off his methods by gathering every man, woman and child in the village, lining them up and having them all gunned down without batting an eye before taking the village as a base for his men.

* CompleteMonster: Major Taussig.

* {{Monster}}: Major Taussig.

* AngstWhatAngst: Most of the kids turn out surprisingly okay at the end for all they've been through. Likewise, Turner takes the total slaughter of his team at the beginning pretty well. [[spoiler:And Bianca seems to get over her attempted rape rather quickly. The ''actual'' rape later is a different matter.]]

* {{Monster}}: Major Taussig.

* KarmaHoudin: Turner to some degree. Also Colonel Jannings, the SS officer who keeps smugly ignoring von Hecht.

* CompleteMonster: Major Taussig is a cold, cruel man who is firmly distinct from the other reasonable German Soldiers. A member of the SS who has no compunction in committing war crimes, Taussig spends the film trying to murder or torture any "Partisans" he comes across in the Italian countryside. At the film's opening, Taussig shows off his methods by gathering every man, woman and child in the village, lining them up and having them all gunned down without batting an eye before taking the village as a base for his men.
* LostInMediasRes: One of the film's problems.

* CompleteMonster: Major Taussig is a cold, cruel man who is firmly distinct from the other reasonable German Soldiers. A member of the SS who has no compunction in committing war crimes, Taussig spends the film trying to murder or torture any 'Partisans' he comes across in the Italian countryside. At the film's opening, Taussig shows off his methods by gathering every man, woman and child in the village, lining them up and having them all gunned down without batting an eye before taking the village as a base for his men.

* AngstWhatAngst: Most of the kids turn out surprisingly okay at the end for all they've been through. Likewise, Turner takes the total slaughter of his entire team at the beginning pretty well. [[spoiler:And Bianca seems to get over her attempted rape rather quickly. The ''actual'' rape later is a different matter.]]

* CompleteMonster: Taussig. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is ordering the death of several civilians, including a priest and several nursing mothers and their babies.

* CompleteMonster: Taussig.

* LostInMediasRes: One of the film's problems besides its inconsistent tone, particularly with regards to how characters and their motivations are introduced.

* CompleteMonster: Taussig.

* AngstWhatAngst: Most of the kids turn out surprisingly okay at the end for all they've been through. Likewise, Turner takes the total slaughter of his entire team at the beginning pretty well. [[spoiler:And Bianca seems to get over her attempted rape rather quickly. The ''actual'' rape later is a different matter.]]