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Rating: 3/10 (30 August 2009)

The bad far outweighs the good in this film. The scenery and costumes are spectacular. The suspense is good, but it is drawn out way too long, then always followed by a very short and violent ending to the scene.
There are plot holes big enough to drive a Panzer through. A French dairy farmer speaks fluent English? The Germans would debut a Nazi propaganda film in Paris after D-Day? All the top Nazi brass would come to see it? Like most movies involving guns, multiple shots in the middle of town attract no attention from the policing units. There are armed Germans everywhere in France, yet the aftermath of every shoot-em-up scene shows only the good guys standing around talking (again for too long). Granted, this is a fantasy, but nothing in the script about reprisals?
This is the second recent film that depicts Jews fighting back (Defiance). Is that the new genre now? Every year we get at least one WWII movie about the plight of the Jews. WWII was 65 years ago! Occasionally, there is a film about other genocide situations (Kosovo, Cambodia, Rwanda), but those folks don't run Hollywood.