It's a shame that such an implausible and cliché movie like Blackbood got 8 stars out of 12000 votes

Rating: 2/10 (12 February 2008)

It's really a shame that a over-the-top commercial World War II film with such cliché story lines (the ever-going battle between good and evil, with almost every German soldier as the most bad-assed person the world ever recognized) as Blackbook is rated 8 stars out of 12000 votes. Some scenes of the movie I could not even take serious, which they were supposed to be (like the scene when a man called 'Van Geis' get killed by some guys from the Dutch resistance; the guy is finally shot down by a pacifistic boy who went nuts because Van Geis is making bad names of the by the boy beloved god....and this is just one of the many booze-gumping scenes).
In the Netherlands (yeah, I'm a Dutch guy) too much money get invested in horrible movies like Blackbook. Quality movies wont make it to the cinema because they don't get subsidized and promoted at all. We should take Germany as an better example of how to create quality movies which are also well promoted in other parts of the world. In doing so, go to the record shop and try to find the German produced Stalingrad (1993) (from the same producer of Das Boot). This movie gives a much better and realistic impression of the most horrible war in human history. Then you will see that this war was nothing more then a cumulation of the most gruesome things human kinds have done to each other; a war where was no place for romantic love situations as are shown in Blackbook.