Enemy Lines

I'm no expert, but when the British HQ are using cold war soviet radio sets, you have to wonder...

Lots of reviews commenting on costume errors too.

The scenes at sea were also laughable. Looked like it was filmed in the bathtub.

Weapons all wrong. No ejecting cases. No recoil. Rates of fire all wrong.

Seriously, why bother?

If you are going to make a period film, why would you not bother to make it accurate? It's not like the plot or script is going to carry the film....

I've seen re-enactments at the local village show do a better job of battle scenes.

Does this film have any saving graces? Errrrm. The snow looked real.

Saving Private Ryan it ain't.

I reckon one can also make jokes about script lines, shooting lines and other stuff of that nature. But if you keep in mind that this is a low budget effort, you may be able to cut it some slack. This is about war and while it may not be accurate in certain things (someone said something about wardrobe, I have to admit, I didn't even notice, because again it was clear from the start this was not a movie that had a lot of money), the stunts and action scenes are really well done.

So if you are able to suspend your disbelief and just roll with the flow, you may have a bit to enjoy here. At the end we also get some text to put the whole thing in context and tell us what happened ... so while this isn't even close to being the best war movie, it also is far away of being the worst.

Bad acting. Cheaply made. Basic storyline. Hardly any dialogue. No connection to any character. Souless garbage.

The story is good but the acting is very poor. It could have been a blockbuster if it had A bigger budget and better actors

Bad directing, bad acting, badly implemented and very hard to watch for more than ten minutes at a time.

How did someone as talented as John Hannah get involved in this project?