All All. Sign In. User reviews. Hide spoilers. Rather Disappointing. I don't want to flame South African cinema. I've enjoyed several releases from there. I also love a good World War II flying movie. This one lost credibility with me. I can forgive the CGI flight scenes that look like they came out of a game.
Original planes from that period are far too rare and valuable to use to make a movie and special effects don't make a movie. The story makes the movie. Unfortunately the story is what let me down. There is a phenomena called "suspension of disbelief" in a movie.
Unfortunately they literally shot suspension of disbelief quite early. His actions were utterly illogical. His men didn't point out how his actions directly worked against the Third Reich winning the war. The evil SS officer was the worst but it wasn't the only logical failure.
Over and over I kept thinking "Why would they do that" and "What a wasted opportunity. Failed attempt. Just watched this on the TV. Interesting storyline let down by poor research and immature psychological insight, silly stereotyping and stilted dialogue script. Initially I thought the acting a bit wooden. Slowly each of the main characters idiosyncrasies grew on me until they became almost believable characters and worthy of the "Actor" job-description.
The exceptions were the girlfriend of the main protagonist and a truly SSified SS officer. She; really quite irrelevant to the story. He; relevant but preposterous. Why, in the 21st Century, did the director decide to have a German SS officer who came from the same mould Hollywood production lines fabricated in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's?
