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Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.
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Joshua Collins
- Henry Smith
- (as Josh Collins)
Rosa Coduri-Fulford
- Jo
- (as Rosa Coduri)
Ryan Goodyear
- Airman
- (as Ryan Gooyear)
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Took a punt on Sky. Script was a bit hit and miss, can't argue, but I read this film was made for 80 thousand pounds so I'm giving leeway.
Was hoping for more plane and war, to be honest. However, despite the poster mis sell I did find it fairly engrossing. 2 lead characters were good and the rest of the cast played there parts well. Undeserving of some of the criticism if you ask me, but I do understand the misgivings. At least it's not a studio remake - and well done for getting it done and being brave enough to focus on the people.
Was hoping for more plane and war, to be honest. However, despite the poster mis sell I did find it fairly engrossing. 2 lead characters were good and the rest of the cast played there parts well. Undeserving of some of the criticism if you ask me, but I do understand the misgivings. At least it's not a studio remake - and well done for getting it done and being brave enough to focus on the people.
Stumbled across this movie and very soon realised it was battling with a very low budget and, in all honesty, not the world's most inspiring writers. Firstly, in a desperate efort to try and create the image of the 1940s, the camera crew have been seemingly told to get as close as possible to the actors as they can, lest they capture something that has to be edited out. The result is an almost comedic high close up of the actors in every scene. It also becomes noticeabe after a while that this is indeed a strange squadron that seems to only have one bomber crew as there are several scenes in the mess hall but not another member of any other crew in sight. Instead this solo crew share their airbase with four WAFs and a sergeant. Pretty incredible really when, quite late in the film, the squadron board suggests this base should be heaving with all the noise and human traffic of thirty bomber crews. Perhaps every crew had their own individual mess, each staffed with four WAFs. It appears they may also have each had their own individual pub too. Either that or the other twenty-nine crews were sworn tee-totalers. The story is okay but the extremely close camera work, uninspiring dialogue, pedestrian plot and lack of the neccessary extras to make them feel like they're on a busy air base really do deliver a generally poor quality movie. It gradually becomes hard to put this down to a lack of finances. I can honestly say I've seen better productions created by university students for Youtube, albeit their efforts aren't feature length.
A mixed bag with a good subject, music and sound, but also some painfully slow pacing, stiff acting performances and far too little action. The few good performances seemed the exception. This suffers from poor writing, direction and abysmal editing. Barely worth watching.
The most boring WWII film I can remember seeing with numerous sub plots that get no resolution. It's like they couldn't figure an ending act so the just cut to black with the story half told.
It's so awful. It's like some 12 year old wrote it, particularly the scenes where they are squabbling about rank and the endless saluting. This appears to have been written by someone who doesn't understand at all. The RAF is hierarchical but not in the way that an officer strolls into the sacred Sgts Mess and demands salutes.... grow up.
This annoyed me so much. I can forgive the basic scenery etc but not such crap dialogue
Did you know
- TriviaThe entire interior fuselage of the Lancaster Bomber in the movie was scratch built by producer Andrew Burn. The fuselage and rotating turrets were built in movable sections and included cutaways to enable the camera crew to undertake their work.
- GoofsIn the opening scene, It shows multiple Lancaster bombers flying in formation at night, in reality this was impossible as they flew with no navigation lights so not to be seen. Each aircraft on a raid flew the same flight path just at slightly different times so to arrive at the target usually within twenty minutes of each other.
- ConnectionsReferences Laurel et Hardy chefs d'îlots (1943)
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Box office
- Budget
- £80,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $67,522
- Runtime
- 1h 38m(98 min)
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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