Wolf Hound

Reminds me of the old spaghetti westerns, low budget , terrible acting , doesn't live up to the hype it was given! Would view this more as a comedy then an action movie . Movie says it was based on real events ....really?? But don't take my word for it , if you have 2 hours to waste please watch this movie and see for yourself!

It's getting almost exhausting listing everything wrong with these bad independent films portraying the war that have been produced in the last ten years or so and trying to think of different ways to describe them. It's also kind of exhausting making myself sit through each one, which I can't always do, in all honesty.

This one is different from most in its category (low budget, unknown filmmakers, no military advisor, World War II), in that I did sit through it, and it was based on a story that involved flying rather than the war on the ground. In that aspect, I assume that this one involved a higher budget, though that money definitely didn't go to ensuring that the American airplanes were painted with invasion stripes like every Allied plane had after the invasion of Sicily, nor did it go into the costume budget. One of the American airmen had a rank insignia on his shirt that had three chevrons of a sergeant, but there was an eagle under the chevrons that looked like the eagle on the modern-day U. S. Army specialist (E-4) rank insignia. I knew that I was in for low quality when they used a made-up German-English hybrid word (Wulfe-Hound) in the prologue.

The worst things about this one were the logistics of the story and the equipment. The Germans had modern hunting knives instead WWII-era military knives, and the Americans somehow found M1 rifles and the ammo for them in the German airbase in Southern France. Oh yeah, and the speed of the planes was amazing! In the last scene, the B-17, B-25, and the Bf-109 all made it from Southwestern France to England in just a few minutes. In fact, the whole story takes place during daylight within a single day. I won't comment on the B-25 dogfighting with the Bf-109. I could go on and on, but I promised myself I wouldn't.

Nevertheless, I think the actors did a pretty good job with what they were given, I must say. If you're someone who likes movies with action and pilots who cry when they find their KIA wingmen on the ground, and don't pay attention to the impossible and highly unlikely elements of the story, this film should be pretty enjoyable for you.

Wolf hound? You'll be the one howling with laughter at this thing. Come for the gigantic brass star of David pendants apparently all Jewish flight crew were issued. Stay for the big plastic swastika flag melting.

This flick ticks all the cliché boxes: We've got a creepy scientist who looks like a cross between the Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Gollum. We've got the now-obligatory Black soldier(s) and French resistance woman. We've got a guy yelling "nooo" when someone gets shot in slow motion, with the surrounding firefight thoughtfully remaining silent for a minute so dying guy can say his last words. We've got a big musclebound Nazi who strips down to his wifebeater for the big fight scene. We've got a guy saying "This ends now" and "Let's finish this."

We've got so much modern language going on ("brainstorm"? Really?), that you expect the evil commandant to bust out a "Hashtag Jews be bad, yo."

Four stars for the story managing to hold together and for the effort the Nazi officers put into sucking in their cheeks to have cheekbones.

The script for this movie is totally ridiculous. I did not serve in combat during WWII, did serve in the Marines in Vietnam. I laughed through the first 15 minutes of the movie. No professional military person, whether he was in the Army, Navy, Marines or Army Air Corp would have acted as these people did. Totally unbelievable. They found a suitable bunch of actors to match the quality of the script. Some of them would never have made the cut in most of the high school plays I've seen. I've seldom heard worst German accents than these people had. If you have to kill 2 hours of time, don't spend it watching this terrible movie. Hit your thumb with a hammer. It will be less painful.

In the real world KG 200 did a lot of special operations and had to check all enemy planes for the Luftwaffe. Of course these machines had no ammo or bombs, as the german types (mostly) did not fit into the guns or suspensions. Testing was mostly for weak/strong spots and maneuverability to guide own pilots, they were never used for attack missions. Planes had german markings and huge yellow wingtips and lower surfaces, so german AA guns won't shoot at them.

Well, in this movie they use a huge number of restored, real original aircraft, and all aerial shots are perfect and beautiful. But of course, all planes are different types except for a pair of P-51, and the storline uses them in an unrealistic way.

Two things may spoil your experience: First the lack of equipment and locations urges the story into outright stupid directions. Every car, uniform and weapon is different, the prison is in the hangar, and fuel barrels are stacked everywhere. Announcements of top secret informations are done over loudspeaker.

Second, and this killed the movie for me, the americans are sort of video game avatar, so they have to kill a lot of NPCs and some bosses, with predicable results.