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That was an excellent one.

Thanks for the memories!

Simply A Masterpiece

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is based on a true story about Pvt. John Barrows (John Harrison) a British paratrooper separated from Normandy on D-Day. He is portrayed as someone who is not cut out for war. He manages to meet some allies, but they are portrayed in such a manner to make Barrows, the "voice of reason" giving a deeper meaning to the film, one that I didn't quite grasp. Murphy (James Boyland) is the overbearing leader of the group and at one time is called worse than the Nazis. Private Filey took a shot to the head and is not all there repeating the last word of other people's statements like Dim from "Clockwork Orange." American George Summers, nicknamed "Rock" (Adam Woodward) is a mute, suffering from shock and stress.The action at times is surreal with the classical music and whimsical soundtracks. This was clearly supposed to something besides a war film, considering how it failed on that point. Was it an anti-war film? Was it supposed to show 4 natures of man? Was it a plug for Cream of Mushroom soup? Unless you want something other than a war film, you might look somewhere else.

A great film, and a great cast, about kids ,most of whom had never been away from home before their basic training, we forget the youngsters that were parachuted in and lost behind enemy lines and the fact that some of them never got back. Have jut read a couple of previous reviews that seem quite negative, and just wanted to try to pull the storyline to pieces, quite amazing considering the film is based on true events. I strongly advise that you trust the Canadian film festival which awarded it the Rising star award, the Palm beach film festival and the London independent film festival and watch it yourself. If we want a film industry in Great Britain, it's in our hands. Otherwise knock yourself out with Revenant.

My wife and I attend many film festivals, we love independent films. With this being a WWII story, my wife didn't want to see this movie. By the end she enjoyed it more than I did (and I thought it was a good movie). It was very entertaining and- to use her words -"not a typical war film". We can not understand why some of these reviews have been very dismissive. It may be because this movie has a small portion of dialogue in German and French. As we don't speak these languages we don't know if the actors were doing a good job or not at speaking correctly. I guess that was the intention -to put the audience into the shoes of the English speaking soldiers. We found it very enjoyable.

I you expect all the fear and wondrous suspense this kind of plot/theme could bring you, you will be largely disappointed. A journey like this could well have been an emotionally terrifying personal experience, yet it became a continuous parade of semi humorous and would be heroic encounters by a bunch of unyielding shallow characters, which left me totally unsatisfied and - after a while - starting to skip scenes. I applaud any attempt to get a movie project together - not a easy task and I must say that technically this movie has a nice continuity, but, nothing gets to me more than having to listen to well-meaning attempts at speaking a foreign language that fail miserably. At least hire real Germans and French or use native voice overs to do the job. What also sort of perplexed me was the lack of realism. In a particular scene, for example, our heroes are sharpshooting moving German targets from quite a distance - one shot - one hit... I must admit never having seen the end of the movie - I could not come up with a good excuse to stay with it.