normangrochowski
I read the other reviews and they are a bit more knowledgeable on details of war and weapons etc.My only complaint is that the cameraman can't hold the camera still. Did they think that during the shootout in the tank scene was going to make it seem more real if they were jostling the camera up and down? Or maybe they wanted the viewer to feel dizzy, like I'm going through a real battle or something.I'm sure jostling the camera every once in a while is necessary for some effect, but this was almost like the bouncy camera work amateurs do on Youtube.
Richard Keenan
There really is not much that can be said for this film apart from it is truly awful. How this has managed to get such a high rating on here is beyond me. I am seriously starting to doubt the scoring and ranking on IMDb. The acting is so wooden it is laughable, the camera work is terrible and the historical and military inaccuracies are unforgivable. I can forgive a few mistakes but this has so many it detracts from what is going on far too much. I don't know what the director did before this film but I thought at one point in the beginning it was a video for a cheesy song by Daniel O'Donnell or Val Doonican or the best of love compilation songs. I love war films and I have sat through some real rubbish ones but this may very well be the worst war film I have ever seen. Don't waste your time on this garbage.
Gittes74
I stumbled across this on Netflix one night when I couldn't sleep, so I gave it a shot, drawn in by the plot synopsis. Let's be clear--"Guns of Navarone" it ain't but I found it to be extremely well produced and executed, chocked full with tons of action. Hard to understand some of these British accents at times and the script was low on character development. I didn't like the ending. Without spoiling, a character dies who should not have. Better than I expected. Worth seeing if you're not going to demand much.I'm not familiar with any of the cast, but now I want to see what else they've done.
BasicLogic
jumping to German occupied France in broad daylight wearing leather shoes? a high ranking major was a German spy and mole in the British army? most of the fighting scenes were either one-sided or just complete messy arrangements. the french resistant hid in a big house with tunnels without an escape arrangement? and they tried to run away when they were surrounded by the German army, they ran into a mine field right next to their secret hideout, are you kidding me? when they went to the pre-arranged rendezvous in the forest at night, why it's so bright? what and where was the bright light coming from? when the German army showed up at night and started the shooting, sometimes it's pitch black but most of the time, the illumination was just so bright, sometimes it's on the left, sometimes it came from the right, and sometimes it's right behind them in the center. then a short fling with a french woman and love making right away? yeah, right, could you just give me another generous break again? 5 or 6 guys of the so-called allies almost eliminated several hundreds of gemans with tanks and plenty of fire power with machine guns....wow, this is indeed a miraculous movie. but since the allies had won the wwii, the winner could do whatever they like and made the loser German force like morons. a typical self-indulgent masturbation that only served to the winning side. the Germans, the japs, the Chinese nationalist party, they were all morons, and the winning parties could rewrite their own histories whatever they preferred.
AD
