A Gentlemans' War?

Rating: 7/10 (18 March 2017)

Factually satisfying but too much of a wink from Broadway to feel like a war movie. This is a prison camp movie, and more specifically, a prison camp rum by the German Air Force, where the pilot code protects beyond its' nationality. I wouldn't have been surprised for the leaders to sit down for a tea. Characters and plots were a bit simpler until the last 40 years, but they were nobler as well. This is such a well known film, that to further pick at tit s=would only show my cin-agenda, much like those for whom the experience rings of old time patriotism. I like my WWII Germans to be obvious villains and my hero top be perceived to be in peril, despite the outcome. The Steve McQueen motorcycle cool seems a bit propped up and our David Attenborough leader a bit too elitist. I was compelled to watch this through a respect for other reviews and recommendations, but I take my tea a bit harder.