tonygriffen

Not one scene in this movie makes any sense. The whole plot is so naive and cartoonish, you wonder how it came out of the UK, that tended to produce decent war movies. None of the characters make any sense, either, with their roles artificially reversed against the situation. Then you realize that the director was Terence Young, who was practicing nonsensical plot twists here for his future James Bond movies. The dialogs are stilted and fit neither the situation nor supposed character roles. I don't want to include spoilers, but the movie gets worse and worse with each passing scene. This is a movie for people who think video games are documentaries.

Is this some kind of an amateur production? Someone's school project? This movie has he worst "acting" you can find anywhere. No way these are actual professional actors. Their attempts at "acting" consist of making faces, and reciting their lines with phony low, rasp voices. The plot is incoherent and bizarrely disjointed. It has ghostly narrations (disembodied voice delivering pompous lines), hallucinations... this thing is laughable even as a bad trip. How did they get anyone to part with their money to produce this script? Wow. Wait, "Carnie Film" production? How appropriate.

This is the worst attempt at western I remember watching.

This is a pseudo-psychological reinterpretation of the defense of Westerplatte. It is full of hysterics, pregnant pauses, unsubstantiated in documents conflicts and dramas. The unit defending the outpost was in reality hand-picked, and the commanders were seasoned and battle hardened. Instead the movie is trying to portray them all as screaming, hysterical old women, running back and forth. This is an awful movie with some decent albeit low budget special effects.

Perhaps the movie was trying to be trendy and "questioning", but questions it is trying to ask are unsupported by evidence, and the answers are confused and consisting primarily of emotional outbursts.

Add to this subpar play by the actors who occasionally seem surprised by the script, and you have a recipe for a D movie. Skip.