Corny

Rating: 6/10 (4 February 2020)

I'd heard how fantastic this film was, so I was expecting to, if not like it (I don't normally gravitate to grim war movies), at least be moved/impressed by it. Not so. I felt let down - the script and lots of the dialogue were just so painfully corny at times - eg back of the truck, grumpy sergeants, and no more so than when the beautiful (of course) young girl and child are discovered in the ruins (just time for a quick nursery rhyme); it lacked any real tension, I think because of the gimmick of breathless continuous shooting; it was unrealistic - the damsel, finding your way through the ruins of a bombed out city at night, no map, no compass, etc etc, surviving the river/waterfall in spite of it all; then that piece of 'luck' happening on an 'open-air concert' at the end. Apart from the lead, the acting was no more than average. This movie was all about the set and the photography - grimly effective. Very disappointing and certainly not Awards material