Patience required - lots of it!

Rating: 4/10 (5 March 2001)

This movie isn't really bad. It's just plain boring. The story takes forever to take off - but eventually doesn't really get anywhere. And despite the long running time of the movie, all the characters remain remarkably 'flat'.
The love story is rather pathetic and unbelievable. Add to this the mandatory evil Nazis, some unnecessary action sequences, and a little bit of explicit violence - and you have your average, cliche World War II romance-adventure movie.
While flashbacks can be an effective device in telling a story, this movie simply overdoes it. After a few switches back and forth between 'past' and 'present', it becomes quite annoying.
It is a puzzle to me why this movie was so well-received when it came out.