They say to never judge a book by its cover, or in this case a film by its poster.
I struggled to understand at first if this was a film based in the USA or an American family living in the U.K. as some appeared to have British accents or an American accent that at times slipped between the two.
As the film went on it soon became apparent this was a film that could have been made by your local amateur dramatics society, there seemed to be a lack of faces you may have seen on either the Big or Small screen and those that did play fleeting parts seemed to be over dramatic in their 15 minutes of fame.
I did try my best to get into this film but found myself asking questions, like " have those actors got really big heads? or really small helmets?"
And why are all Germans wearing the same uniforms all black and not a battle field Grey in sight, officers outnumbered the ordinary infantrymen 4 to 1, I guess they could not find any German WWII helmets but at least all the Germans were wearing the same armband.
I must give credit to the effects man (notice I do not use the term 'Special', this I reserve for anyone who watched the full 71 minutes).
He must have spent a while sitting in a shed with a pot of jam and some fireworks as he managed to pull off some convincing bullets hitting bodies in a 5 minute period of action that nearly but not quite scratched the surface of the anticipated action promised on the poster, but alas we never got there.
To sum up, a poor representation of Normandy in 1944 with it's lack of military vehicles, landscape that should have been battered by years of war, added to this the bad acting, sound, storyline and I am guessing low budget, I would not recommend this film if you are looking for the action it promises on the poster, only watch it if you have nothing else to do and I mean absolutely nothing.
