Wolf Hound

The aircraft scenes are absolutely gorgeous because they used actual airplanes for them, however the rest of the movie sucks. Bad cgi bullets, things that make no sense, and an obvious push for woman power, etc.

IN A NUTSHELL: Inspired by the real-life German special operations unit KG 200 that shot down, repaired, and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses, "Wolf Hound" takes place in 1944 German-occupied France and follows the daring exploits of Jewish-American fighter pilot Captain David Holden. Ambushed behind enemy lines, Holden must rescue a captured B-17 Flying Fortress crew, evade a ruthless enemy stalking him at every turn, and foil a plot that could completely alter the outcome of World War II.

THINGS I LIKED: There are some beautiful aerial shots and impressive cinematography. The first 25 minutes are exciting aerial acrobatics in the sky over German-occupied France.

Real WWII Period Aircraft featured in this film include a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, North American P-51 Mustang fighters, Supermarine Spitfire fighter, Hawker Hurricane fighter, North American B-25 Mitchell bomber, and Messerschmitt Bf 109 (ME 109) fighter. Not a single computer-generated plane is in the movie! That's impressive!

For aircraft destruction/explosion shots, detailed scale models were filmed and then further enhanced with Visual Effects, but no shot is 100% computer-generated.

To film the skydiving sequences after two weeks of prep, Luke Aikins and Skydiving Double Andy Farrington performed a total of 14 jumps with customized parachute rigs on their helmets in 2 shooting days for the film.

The handsome and buff cast members include James Maslow, Trevor Donovan, John Turk, Michael Wayne Foster, John Wells, Taylor Novak, Michael Parrish, Brian Heintz, and more.

THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE: The plot is kind of silly with basically one American defeating a ton of Nazis and saving the day. The movie is said to be based on a true story, but I don't know enough about the actual history of these events to know how accurate the movie is.

The most compelling moments of the film are when we're up in the air with the dogfights.

It's pretty cliched and extremely melodramatic.

Some bad editing moments.

The movie is simply too long for what it offers.

Some of the accents aren't very good.

One-note characters with very clunky dialogue. Most of the dialogue is grumbled through clenched teeth.

Some of the action sequences and shoot-outs aren't very good. For example, the Nazis conveniently jump out to attack the Americans one at a time.

There are some really dumb lines like, "Oh man, this does not look good! What are we going to do?" Another line that is spoken quite a number of times is, "No, no, no!" The blood on people looks really fake.

TIPS FOR PARENTS: Explosions and destruction Bloody deaths with a high dead body count Some German is spoken without subtitles.

Torture is seen and heard.

THEMES: Persistence Patriotism Revenge WWII Jews and faith War

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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.