Les Anges du ciel

I watch a lot of war movies (especially with my dad). So don't think i'm against war films as i write this...

This was a horrible horrible movie. I don't even know where to start, the title sequence felt like it went on forever, with the same grainy film in a loop overlapping at what felt like a whole newspaper I had to read.

The visual effects were appalling. Felt like it was rushed by a 9th grader using 3D studio max for the first time.

The characters was one dimensional and the acting was just soooo soooo baaaaad.

The story was boring, after the first 15 min I lost interest.

And the sound..ARRRG the sound....The background sounds were out of place and repetitive. The voices in some scenes sounded as if it were re-dubbed.

The ONLY reason i'm giving it a rating of 2 out of 10, is that at least the costumes looked authentic.

Rather save your money and re-watch something brilliant like Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, The Pacific or We were soldiers.

I don't want to flame South African cinema. I've enjoyed several releases from there. I also love a good World War II flying movie. This one lost credibility with me.

I can forgive the CGI flight scenes that look like they came out of a game. Original planes from that period are far too rare and valuable to use to make a movie and special effects don't make a movie. The story makes the movie. Unfortunately the story is what let me down.

There is a phenomena called "suspension of disbelief" in a movie. Unfortunately they literally shot suspension of disbelief quite early. The cliché evil SS officer just blew it away. His actions were utterly illogical. His men didn't point out how his actions directly worked against the Third Reich winning the war.

The evil SS officer was the worst but it wasn't the only logical failure. Over and over I kept thinking "Why would they do that" and "What a wasted opportunity." I sincerely wish them better luck next time.

Cardboard aircraft that do not even look real, poor acting and locations that are obviously not European. Certainly can tell it is a low budget film with no real dialogue, a total waste of viewing time!

Not sure where to start with this one - it is obvious that the writer/director wanted to honour the South African volunteers who served, very capably in the RAF during the WWII. Unfortunately this load of rubbish does them no honour at all.

The research, if indeed there actually was any, is slapdash in the extreme (a medic carrying a rifle? the "hero" in tropical brown in place of RAF blue? etc. etc.). The uniforms and background ideas (RAF daylight bombing???) are just ridiculous and even the ranks are incorrect (how hard is it to get those right?). To list all of the obvious errors would probably take more text than the full wooden script.

I could go on about this but all could have been tolerable if the acting had been even competent but, to be honest, I have seen better at the local 'AmDram'. There is little attempt, so it appears, to actually do more than "read the lines" from a script that shows zero knowledge of WWII or the RAF with a crew that purports to be veteran but is so undisciplined that most wouldn't have managed more than a couple of months without a court martial.

Sadly I cannot see any saving grace in this movie - it really is a case of can I have the two hours of my life back please?

Don't waste your time.

Just about unwatchable, as others have said cgi was poor but that is not so important if the acting and story are good. Unfortunately that is not the case here and added to that the accents perporting to be English, Sa and Australian (I think?) Were just too bad to be believed. Avoid if you can.