tgchan As you probably know, I am from Poland and this is the film about one of the most important historical events of my country, the brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. If you would like to learn some more facts about it, uncle google and aunt wiki are more than happy to help you out :) . Let's focus on the film! Mind that, I don't like Polish films... Even though I have watched some amazing ones [ Komornik (2005), Symetria (2003) ] I am really not fond of them.2 minutes - of advertising the sponsors... I am already annoyed 9 minutes - something fishy is going on here... The acting feels good, music is nice and I am genuinely interested from the very first few minutes 23 minutes - LOL! Fallout music!!! ( I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire - The Ink Spots ), incredible! 27 minutes - damn... so much feels and drama, and it is only the beginning 31 minutes - if this is how it really looked like, I mean the organization, I feel bad for those damn fools...32 minutes - bad CGI effects... but I forgive them, it's Poland, we have to cut some corners. They have just started the uprising, some random guy wants to join them and the commander says that the uprising is almost over... WTF?! 35 minutes - so far, it looks like some random people were bored and wanted some action... if this is what really happened (which I doubt), those poor bastards deserved to die for being plain stupid...40 minutes - WTF!?!?!?!? Did the director just put some random kiss scene in a middle of a gunfight with some cartoon effects going on!? I am speechless...48 minutes - holy S... I am glad that the director is not saving actors from dying, kudos for that 56 minutes - blood rain and body parts dropping from the sky after some big ass explosion, this film has it! (it can't be real, can it? It looked cool as hell though). After few minutes of research I have found that it was booby-trapped tank. You can read more about it here: http://www.warsawuprising.com/paper/dpa_sibierski.htm 1h 28minutes - so far so good, but from time to time the director has implemented some weird s..t. I have no idea why did he do that... it feels retarded and out of place... WTF... I can't believe he actually used some dub step music... It stinks with amateurism 1h 39minutes - the acting is really damn good, that's for sure! 1h 41minutes - bloody action is good tooDefinitely a solid film, if you like military films, there is no option you will not like this one! I would definitely see another ww2 film from Jan Komasa.tgchan's rating: 7.5 /10

sielski-1 For emotion I give it 10/10.Plot was reasonably interesting, there was some character development, however the main character's actions during the film were often questionable.I felt that they basically threw together random facts and then hammered it together into a story and threw a love triangle in just to make it interesting.Some historical facts were covered hurriedly and not explained or emphasized clearly. The fact that all buildings were to be destroyed unless Poland surrendered was very hurriedly mentioned.Furthermore the combat did not seem representative of the statistical kill ratios as recorded. Statistically the number of Polish resistance casualties was similar to the number of Nazi troop casualties. In the film the Polish troops seem to drop like flies and you almost never see any Nazis being killed, except for in room to room engagements.I also believe that some of the scenes were unnecessary, the unrealistic kissing scene.Overall I enjoyed the film until I thought about the plot after finishing the film. To me the plot felt unsatisfying, but this is my subjective opinion.I must however praise the film for trying to include as many historical events as possible.However I am irritated at the lack of any mention about the weapons manufactured by the resistance. During the Polish uprising, the Polish underground manufactured nearly 1000 Błyskawica submachine guns. I saw none of these during the film. I know it's costly to make a functioning replica of this, but they didn't have to, they could have made a non-functioning replica and had some of the men carrying them. They didn't even mention that they were manufacturing this or that they were manufacturing VIS pistols. You do at least see 1 VIS pistol during the film.

WideManagementW Jan Komasa's "Warsaw 44" is an audacious and impressive, genre-blending pop-cultural epic war or, as some might put it, anti-war motion picture that hits the nail on the head with unusual and daring vision from an unknown director from Poland. The story is as simple as it gets. It's just before the summer of 1944 in occupied Warsaw, Poland. Nazi's are retreating slowly leaving the eastern front behind. The Second World War is coming to its end and clearly new order is about to be established. Poland, which had suffered numerous tragic blows of fate in its history, finally has a chance to prove its right for independence.Stefan (fresh, unobvious and heavy on delicate retro 40's charm Jozef Pawlowski) is the only breadwinner after he lost his father at the beginning of the war. In order to make it and get by with his grief stricken mother and younger brother Jas Stefan unlike his peers is away from getting involved into polish resistance rebellion preparing for the uprising against German occupation. It takes an unfortunate event for Stefan to be forced to join the underground polish Home Army where he meets his old friends and a girl – Alicja (brilliant Zofia Wichlacz). Stefan keeps his new engagement secret from his troubled mother. And then one day surprisingly to everybody involved there comes an order to start the uprising, which is meant to last three days but eventually will lead to a bloody apocalypse.From the beginning of the movie we experience a visual orgy of different genres mixed together dipped in a salsa gravy of brutal and bloody scenes provocatively shot in a very colorful and even at times fairy-like manner with a little bit of ironical kitsch unlike a typical war cinema has made us to expect. Komasa insanely puts young actors on an emotional roller coaster where things resemble a nightmarish Klimov's "Come and see" crossed with a Disney fairy tale juxtaposing a slo-mo of bullets circling around the kissing lovers with the downpour of blood and guts in one of the most gruesome scenes to be shown in cinema. The way of storytelling makes us follow the characters but surprisingly not because of their psychology, which seems as simple in construction as it gets concerning the fact that we watch people in the middle of unleashed hell where they can only escape or take cover occasionally shoot a bullet at an invisible German enemy. At first you would like to have characters which are more proactive but then - hey! It's war, not another Rambo movie. The characters are tools or goggles through which a viewer can experience the simulation of the world, which does not pretend to be Warsaw from 1944 either. It's more of a dreamy creation, a fantasy, phantom all coming from the director's mind bravely composed with uneasy feeling of disappointment, as if helmer writer wanted to express his doubt whether we would ever let it go and just live together not minding differences in this Babel world. Whoever is seeking realism, regular narrative war movie and psychologically twisting drama would feel disappointment watching "Warsaw 44" since it's a rare, provocative, ambitious and original gem, a super budget experiment on one of the biggest and most horrifying events in XX century, a bloody opera staged before our damned eyes to show us the fire we lit up ourselves once in a while in the name of hatred and self-destruction.

Kamil J. I'm confused reading reviews for this movie (mostly 10/10) and current rating on IMDb (7,3)... ...this movie is very, very bad. scenario and characters are weakest parts of it - scenario is full of stupid mistakes and inconsistencies, and behavior of the characters devoid of any sense (especially the main love triangle). Also, a lot of stereotypical scenes to underline the brutality of 'the bad guys'. Besides, good camera work and scenography - but it is not enough to waste your time on this creation, which resembles country fair. Generally, Komasa is not so bad director, as he showed in this work - so, what's happen? Did big money take their course?