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This movie would be considered cruel and unusual punishment if anyone was ever forced to watch it.

The actors are so bad I can only assumed they paid to be in the film. It was like a fourth grader reading cue cards, confused by the cameras. The story-line was incredibly basic yet at the same time so troubling to try in follow. Like a Make-a-Wish kid just wanted to see his cruel crayon drawing come to life. I believe all the special effects were also handled by this child.

Beyond everything else that stood out, the camera angles really sealed the deal. It was like they could only film one angle at a time, so they filled each actor at a time, then tried to splice the film back together. It has some of the most un-organic dialog to ever be featured in a movie.

The fact that they sell this movie for nearly ten dollars is unbelievable.

As a War Film, it is painful to watch.A flying B-17 with the sound track of a Cessna? All flying scenes appear to be those of a first time RC operator. Major continuity problems when two man B-17 crew bail out and unexplainedly shows up in Britain. German Train Engineer has a radio and talks in English with B-17 Crew? A better Title might have been. "It Gets Worse". The Script is hard to follow until you accept the pointlessness of trying.

Possibly the worst film I have ever seen. The special effects department must have had a budget of around £2, and the acting is just awful. I've seen puppet shows with better acting.

To be honest I don't know where to begin. My cocker spaniel could have produced and acted better. I love war films and the history of the v2, s. This film has mentally scarred me.

The special effects are to be honest worse than appalling. Radio control planes, low flying b17, s talking to a German train driver.

I got about 25 minutes in and that was enough. Why make it at all if its this bad? .

About as much artistic directing talent as a collection of colour blind hedgehogs in a bag.

25 minutes of my life I will never get back. Sounds good but don't bother.

This has to be the worst 'movie' that I've ever seen, and if that's what the people who made this 'movie' were hoping to achieve, then they have succeeded beyond all expectations.

Where do I begin? From start to finish, the acting was less than the village amateur dramatic society would have reached on a bad day. The 'effects' were cringe worthy at best. The script was appalling. I could go on, but I've lost the will.

Let's look at a major aspect of the 'story' line: the aircraft. All aircraft in this 'movie' are radio-controlled models. No attempt was made to disguise this in any way whatsoever.

The 'German' train/locomotive is nothing less than an obviously American steam loco, and still shows it's American 481 insignia. Later in the movie, a child's toy train set is used to show the train crashing an exploding.

Amazingly, for WW2, the 'German' locomotive engineer/driver is able to make instant radio contact with an American Bomber aircraft, asking him not to bomb the train.

During a discussion, a German SS officer describes distance in Kilo's instead of Kilometres. So he actually describing weight instead of distance. Stupidly written dialogue. The same can be said of a German officer using the phrase, "Turn-on-a-dime", which no German would have ever used. All aircraft cockpit views are just a few badly riveted metal frames, and are no better than a cardboard box. A British pub/bar is nothing more than a few planks of wood, nailed together, as are some of the German Rocket Factory offices.

During an 'Air Raid", German guards can be seen rushing out and randomly shooting at absolutely nothing. In a London home, there's a telephone on the side that doesn't ring, but the 'British' guy picks up the phone anyway and answers it with "Hello"

The list could go on and on, but the bottom line is, this is one terrible movie, and probably doesn't even rate worthy of a Rotten Tomato Award.

Some movies are so bad that you actually enjoy them, laughing at the silliness, preferably with some alcohol involved, and friends.

This isn't one of them.

It's more of an insult. The wooden dialogues, the cardboard settings (did I actually see some of the 'actors' glancing sideways to read their lines??).

The "special effects", well let's not go there.

If my 12 year old cousin (I don't have one, but bear with me) would present me with this film, I would be very impressed. And I would wish him well in his future as a potential director/screen writer.

But this actually got made and released, and that's quite an insult to the year 2020. And to movie viewers.

A dreadful production. I've seen better work from middle school students.

If you're into remote control planes and model railways then you'll love the action scenes. If it was correctly labelled as a comedy I would have given it 2/10

Found this movie at Walmart for cheap and decided to give it a chance. Bad idea. First, the box cover; the image on the back of the DVD case is a Bf-108, a period-accurate trainer, though clearly not an Bf-109 fighter. Not only that, the image of Bf-108 has tracer fire emerging from underneath the fuselage from weapons that don't exist in the image. The biggest laugh came with two of the other aircraft in the same image, one is an American AT-6 trainer dressed as a Japanese Zero fighter. The other aircraft is clearly a Japanese B5N 'Kate' torpedo-bomber with a torpedo slung underneath. Keep in mind, this is suppose to be January 1945, Germany we're in!

The movie itself;

I could only watch ten minutes of it before turning it off. The production value is poor. The aircraft on screen are radio-controlled aircraft kept at a distance. The acting is stilted. Line deliveries are poor with no real attempt at accents. What frustrated me was the set design. It was clearly done on the cheap. The 'cockpit of the B-17' is just a black cutout. If you look behind the pilots, you can see where the facade ends.

From what I understand of the story, the Germans are moving a train loaded with materiel for their rocket-powered Komet and jet-powered Me-262 facilities. Intel has intercepted where the train is going to be at a point in time and want the train destroyed with precision bombing. So they send a lumbering B-17 bomber with just two crew-members, only one is an actual pilot, a fighter pilot in a P-38 squadron. The other is his brother, a trail gunner in another bomber squadron. And both decide to go on this mission together because-reasons. Why not send P-38s or other fighter-bombers to go after this target? Well, the squadron is out on another mission.

Then ask another fighter-squadron if they can do it! Why send a single B-17 into Germany with no fighter support and only two crew members? This may be January 1945, but Germany is still putting up fierce resistance.

That's where I ended it. I couldn't go any further. If they're not going to put forth the effort, why should I?

Never have done a review but after watching this I had to. THIS IS NOT A MOVIE THIS IS A JOKE!

This was a painful film to watch, but not in a good way. From the very begining, it was a cringe-athon. The cringe meter was locked on high througout. I think that my 7 year old son could have written a better and more believable script, and then gone on to film it with some of his class mates.

This is the only film that I have watched, where I can honestly say absolutely nothing positive about it.

Frankly, the film is an insult to the war veterans on both sides of the conflic.

I watch the movie for 3 minutes and decide to give up I give it a rating of 10 star for its eloquence in forwarning the audience off wasting any more time.

The $83 budget according to the specifics must be true.

If you thought Disaster Movie was bad, then brace yourself for Rocket Hunter. It will amaze you in all the bad ways.

I'm sorry but it's probably the worse film ever. From ridiculous special effects to horrible acting. Poor script and cinematography. Everything is so wrong.. Don't waste your time.. Not worth even 1 star.

When I was in college we were given group assignments to give presentations on major historical events during reconstruction. For some reason, one group thought it would be a great idea to do a skit which they wrote the script for right outside the classroom in front of God and everybody on the day it was due. As bad as that was, it was Oscar material compared to this giant bag farts.

Never in the field of cinematic conflict have so many been nauseated by so few.

The title says it all. Honestly one of the worst WW2 films ever made. My grandfather constantly was commenting on not just the acting, but the "factual" side of things with the accuracy of the film.

I will not go into how bad and amateurish Rocket Hunter (RH) is because others have covered that sufficiently. The only redeeming values out of RH is the smattering of history used and being a poster child for the need for film schools. I watch a lot of films and RH made me think over and over, "what did they just do wrong and why?" There are so many good films that we watch and because there are no potholes, we do not notice what they done right. RH shows their are standards we take for granted until they are missing. Kind of like watching a third grade concert sawing violins in half and you are a musician. I would use RH as an example in a film class or as a punishment for captive audiences.

I bet somebody's nan is really proud of this masterpiece! I was trapped in one of those timeshare demos for free breakfast and it was more exciting...

Wooden actors look like they are reading the script for the first time. Special effects looked like a 1st generation Nintendo game. The props were terrible. And who was driving the train? It was an American 19th century train in wartime Europe, no fireman & just the driver with a radio! Come on it was so bad, you had to watch more to see if any of it was any good.

OK! I know your instant reaction will be to Downvote me immediately, but I admit this film IS BAD! at least permit me, allow me to explain why I gave it a high rating. Mainly it is because I enjoyed it, or parts of it.

Don't get me wrong, this is definitely bad but there were a couple of things that I liked a lot, and I was kind of impressed. The other earlier scenes I flipped through, apparently there is something going on about a woman who is using the radio to torment American soldiers, I think maybe she was the girlfriend or something of the old guy at the end who is kind of the Winston Churchill clone, or daughter or something- he's got her picture on the wall. And for some reason she is broadcasting from the rocket factory. They kept on showing a picture of her on some wall without context all the way through the movie. Finally, we get to see that the picture is hanging in the office of some old rummy that looks like a cross between WC Fields and Winston Churchill, so apparently there is some relationship between that woman and "WC Churchill".

This is "allegedly" based, very loosely based, on the raid upon Kohnstein Hill in Germany where Mittelwerk/DORA was. If anybody ever watched "The Good German", that was partially what that film was about as well. But where in that film I think by Steven Soderbergh they actually took great pains to completely re-create the filming techniques of 1947, they didn't bother doing anything unique like that with this film. This film would have worked a lot better if it were done to mimic the black-and-white and filming techniques of the 40s.

Because the story itself is alright, there are a couple of interesting things in there, but it's just that the story is planted within the confines of such a poor production that it is pretty much wasted.

I don't remember ever hearing anything about a single pilot using a stolen Messerschmidt to blow up part of the main Kohnstein factory. There was an actual raid where they used some kind of napalm to blow it up, and there was a much larger raid later on toward the end of World War II.

I just didn't see any references to this particular story in anything that I have just read. If this is based on something that actually happened, I would like to read about it. But the Wikipedia article doesn't really say that much and some of the other articles I found were just too comprehensive and I didn't have the time to read through the TOMEs quickly enough.

What yanked me into this was the 1.3-star rating, I had to see what it was about. And I should have given the same rating, but I just have to be different, you know? But I mostly agree with most of the opinions expressed here.

Most of the acting was so pitiful and bad that I scrubbed through it. Until I got to the part where the kid locates and shoots a pitiful 20mm gun into a rocket factory. I think it was 20, The size kept changing.

The reason why I am rating this a whole 10 is because there is a scene where the kid is flying over the (Black?) Forest very close to the treetops and this had to have been taped, it looked like it was taped in a small airplane or Chopper with what was probably a Sony Handycam. Actually I think it probably was a real airplane that they used to film that flyover. The $83 was probably the airplane rental for the day. The vibrations of the plane must have caused video distortion, I got the same kind of distortion when I attempted to videotape the punk rock band "DOA" at the Casbah in San Diego with a similar Handycam. The bass was so loud that the low-frequency vibrations literally caused the video to distort, and that is exactly what I see here in the aerial flyover scenes, the same exact kind of distortion. Because older handycams couldn't handle low freqs like that, new handycams can. So they probably dusted off the old Sony Handycam taken from their moms closet to film that part.

There is also a scene where it shows the airplane from the side, shooting, and this to me appears not any worse than the animation used in late 30's or early 40's war films, like that film about Bombardiers made in 1943 starring Randolph Scott. In that film, they took literal footage of B-17s and they cleverly animated Japanese Zeros flying through their formation, shooting at them, it was actually pretty remarkable animation for 1943, although some of the shots of the Japanese pilots were taken from the John Wayne movie "flying tigers".

Which is why I kind of liked the animation that they used in this, the animation that must have cost an additional $83 to fund.

Actually more likely the guy who made this film probably paid $41.50 to rent the airplane to fly over the "Black Forest", and the other $41.50 spent creating the animation of the Messerschmidt shooting up the factory.

Around that time in the film they show a V2 rocket being moved out of the factory and I don't know if that was animation or not but it did look kind of interesting, it looked good actually.

That's why I say this movie would have fared a lot better had they done it completely in black-and-white, minimized some of the camera shots, And hired a slightly better script supervisor.

I stopped 15 minute into the movie to check what people were saying about it... i have never ever reviewed a movie but I went through the registration process just to be able to review this one, what a waste.

Is this really a joke? my kids could make a better movie than this! The acting was ridiculous! Terrible movie! Is this for real?

Worst film ever its a joke i mean seriously this film was made on someones iphone.