The Last Rescue

If you think you are getting an action movie you will be sorely mistaken, due to obvious budget implications this movie is more like a drama....or a "war soap opera".

Where the film is shot is not convincing, I don't feel like Im traveling through 1940s Europe, but some American forest.

The writing shows a true lack of understanding of what WW2 conflict was about, or the military in general and thusly the actors are not to able to portray this film accurately enough for the time period. The movie also rambles on in scenes, since the budget is low, and action scenes scarce, they try to write in scenes with supposedly deep, profound conversations but its just boring and cheesy.

Even the scenes of tension are lame, like the soldier hiding behind a door he would obviously have been seen by anyone, heck a 2 year old would have found him.

Then there is a scene where they just let some German soldiers go, (of course the decision comes back to haunt them) its completely unbelievable and lame you can tell the writer of this movie, never spent a day in the military, neither did the Director or any of the Producers.

BTW, there were like 3 pages of posts talking about how great this movies was 2 weeks ago, but it looks like IMDb dumped them all, I knew it was to good to be true, and when I turned the movie on, I was like yup, knew it...thank goodness it was a torrent!

This is what happens when you make a cheap movie in south Alabama. The scenery was wrong for northern France.

Women didn't serve in combat in 1944. WACs and nurses didn't have hairstyles like Nancy and Vera.

There were no German vehicles in movie. They just tossed Nazi flags over U.S. Jeeps. The German spoken was unrecognizable, and I speak German. They just used a bunch of familiar words like schnell. One of the German soldiers spoke with a Brooklyn accent.

Maxwell disappeared when grenade blew-up--poor special effects. The clothing and weapons were from post-Vietnam era.

Only a young person would be fooled by this poor excuse for a WWII movie.

Cody Keach as the Private is not too bad, but the rest of the male actors leave a bit to be desired. Also, some of the outlandish feats of the private are not too believable. The nurses are fine, but their scripts are a bit uneven at times. The production values also leave a lot to be desired, but considering the budget, they did the best they could.

The story of nurses and soldiers caught between German and American lines after D-Day, seemed more like a Battle of the Bulge situation than D-Day. However, there is no real chemistry between the actors in the film, and ultimately, that is its downfall. Find something else to view.

Several months after D-Day in northern France, three soldiers and two Army Corps nurses get stuck behind enemy lines and try to make it out alive.

"The Last Rescue" (2015) is a WW2 indie that's small in budget but big in heart. The producers didn't have the resources for authentic German vehicles (tanks or Kubelwagens) or convincing CGI and so did the best they could with what was available. Yet the movie scores well in the most important department, human interest.

This is basically a survival flick focusing on a small group of people who are thrust into a life or death situation and must work together in order to survive. The characters are believable, generally speaking, and the acting is very good. Sure, there are some unlikely elements, like the soldier hiding behind an open door, but all kinds of improbable scenarios like this took place in real-life. This is not to say that the titular rescue at the climax is believable. It's not; but, then again, it IS a movie.

In regards to cast, Elizabeth Rice and Hallie Shepherd appear on the feminine front as Nancy and Vera respectively. Elizabeth starred in the excellent horror indie "From Within" (2008). She's blossomed into a beautiful, intelligent woman.

On the other side of the gender spectrum there's Brett Cullen (the hardened Captain), Cody Kasch (the naïve Pvt. Lewis), Darren Keefe Reiher (Lt. Maxwell) and Tino Struckmann (German Lt. Dittrich).

Bottom line, this is similar to "Saving Private Ryan" (1997) as far as the small band of Americans traversing through northern France and encountering German patrols here and there. The difference is that it includes two women in the main cast and is very much a 'B' movie (with hand-held cameras). So don't expect any Tiger tanks, demolished European cities or authentic French locations.

The film runs 1 hour, 46 minutes, and was shot in Alabama.

GRADE: B-

If you expect a realistic war movie skip this one. The plot is weak and the whole story very unbelievable. The surroundings are wrong for the setting and just to make sure we know they are Germans they put big flags on their cars. Sometimes even in the wrong way! And as usual all Germans speak English again. Actually they speak better German than English because I could not understand most of the so-called German. The so-called French man in the movie also speaks English, they don't even speak English there now, let alone back in 1944! And a German soldier asking them if they can speak English? Come on! No, sorry: if you really have nothing to do maybe you can have a look at it but my advise: look for something else. This one is unrealistic and above all quite predictable.