all's fair in love and war

Rating: 9/10 (29 September 2006)

Paul Verhoeven is a great and experienced director. Although this movie had a modest budget camera, music, lighting and acting; it's all excellent. Also the screenplay is well thought out and there is plenty of sex and violence, so it's all very entertaining and exiting. The movie takes two and a half hour and that maybe a bit long for this type of movie, since it keeps up a very high pace. Furthermore Paul Verhoeven has tried to throw in some links to the present day political situation which perhaps he shouldn't have, in my opinion the movie didn't need it. Also in the movie there is a farmer who gives shelter to a Jewish girl and he is portrayed as a very rigid, cranky man, while in reality farmers saved many, many people during the war and weren't that moody. Still an excellent WW2 movie.