2001 version of the 2WW movie pap they produced in the 1950s

Rating: 3/10 (24 February 2002)

I made the mistake of watching this utter pap soon after watching a REALLY good movie about the Italian 2nd World War years and the frailty of an italian male faced with a beautiful women - ie Malena.
For some reason the DVD I watched seemed to have cut the scenes where the Germans eat babies for breakfast while the Italians sing high opera and the locals enjoy another day of sunlit island paradise (while a few of their sons gnash their teeth about the infidel invaders), but you just knew the scene was coming any moment now!
Hopelessly miscast leading figures, a completely creaky plot line and direction that varies between glossy travelogue and amateur war movie does NO justice to any of the Italians who were massacred on the island.
eg Penelope Cruz's has a 20+ year crush on a local fisherman but never found out he couldn't read/write! Enough said.
I hated it and was in 2* 4* 8* 16* speed mode by the time the German stukas precision bombed the areas around the heros...
2 out of 10.