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C |
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| Story: |
D |
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| Acting: |
C |
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| Direction: |
D |
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| Visuals: |
B |
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showed promise but fell down at the end
by Mark O Neill (movies profile)
Oct 28, 2005
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I am a big fan of war movies so I approached this movie with a lot of anticipation and intrepidation. The Battle of Britain was literally Britain's fight for survival and so I expected a great movie. Instead all we got was a few bombing raids, a few explosions and few old tired Nazi cliches.
Where this film could have got better - more emphasis on the pilots themselves - their characters, their fears, their feelings. Instead we got stereotyped cardboard cut-outs, guys smoking cigarettes and crying "tally-ho!" as they went into battle. Please! We could also have seen some of the "behind the scenes" in London and Berlin, where we could have seen Churchill and Hitler planning and strategising. Instead we got cliched arm-flipping Nazi officers (and a ridiculous Goering) and on the British side, some high-ranking RAF clones with bushy moustaches and stipp upper lips.
Which is a pity really. The film had some stellar actors - Michael Caine, Edward Fox and Curt Jurgens among them but the script really let them down. The DVD extras are also very dire. I would give this DVD a miss and instead buy a better war movie such as "The Great Escape" or "A Bridge too Far". |
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