A long walk in the woods

Rating: 3/10 (28 March 2018)

If you like movies with lots of scenes of actors walking in seemingly endless snowy woods, then you'll love this movie. Clearly, the studio check book was on another sound stage/studio. It became very apparent not long after the film began that this wasn't a big budget war film because the movie is filled with scenes of snowy fields and trees, and the actors walking through them. The producers needed to save the budget, so you really only get one action sequence at the end, presumably with the reuse of German soldiers who were killed at one part of the action sequence and then used again later (you'll only see two or three soldiers chasing the heroes at any one time, but it's suggested that the heroes are surrounded by a vast force that's never really there). The movie is predictable, you know who will make it and who won't, and you'll be stuck for nine-tenths of the movie looking at snow and listening to stupid dialogue. Oh, and naturally there's a cute French girl 2/3rds of the way through who shows up for no real reason. Bottom line is that if you're looking for a war movie with a plot and action, look elsewhere. But if you like to look at trees and snow and people walking through it aimlessly, then jackpot! Historical note: if the soldiers were where the movie suggests they would be, the forests would be crawling with German soldiers, so the hero's wouldn't be stopping and talking in the open as much as they do in this movie.