Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Diagonaldi Very well executed

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

SnoopyStyle It's 1944 in the last days of the Warsaw uprising. Lieutenant Zadra commands a company of desperate freedom fighters. They have inferior weapons facing overwhelming German forces. They are soon surrounded by the Germans and ordered to retreat into the sewers. They find themselves cut off and stuck in the dark tunnels.The above ground fighting has certain moments. I didn't know that the Germans were using armored remote control vehicles. There are some action and one tank. It has lots of devastated landscape. There are a few too many main characters. Once the movie goes underground, it goes in a small maze. It's confining but not that intense.

David Traversa Probably my contribution to this film is an unfair one, since I'm writing from a feeling that comes back to my memory when I see the title "Kanal" all of a sudden and some flashes appeared in my mind of that sensational film.I should see it again and study my reaction NOW, a totally different person from that young adult that I was when I saw this picture.I can recall leaving the movie theater when the film ended with a devastating sense of doom not only because of the total blackness of the movie but specially by its ending, absolutely crashing, morally and physically.Of course Hollywood would have never done such a dark movie and the feminine character would have walked thru the sewer system in some designer clothes, fully made up and coiffed to death, happily singing Che sara, sara --or Who's Sarah?-- (Doris Day as the protagonist? 1957 right?).I honestly believe that I never saw a most depressing movie in my whole life. Maybe "Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini" (Sublime!!) but color photography helped to take it out of that terrible sense of doom we get from the black and white "Kanal".A MASTERPIECE, no doubt, but you must be in the right mood to watch it without getting dangerously depressed.

drystyx This is an example of how not to make a movie.It is supposed to be a brutal, realistic story, and there lies the problem. It fails, miserably. It is very embarrassing for those involved in a work when they tout it for something it isn't. Had it been made as some of the usual fluff, which it is, they might have gotten by.As it is, we're bored to tears with a senseless array of scenes, and no one cares. It's so predictable and contrived, one can imagine an audience groaning even in the fifties. It takes absolutely no risks, and just gives us the same formula we get every time. We immediately know what the fate is for every character, and strangely enough, the director even comes across as a neo nazi idealist with his contrived finish.Stink, stank, stunk.

G K In the 1944 Warsaw uprising, a Polish anti-Nazi resistance unit take refuge from their enemies in the city's system of sewers. Polish critics state that the film paved the way for other films of the Polish School of filmmakers.Kanal is an underrated entry in director Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy, but there is an extraordinary sense of claustrophobia in the dark, dark tunnels beneath Warsaw, and the heroism of these beleaguered partisans is stirring. Their fear of being discovered creates heart-stopping tension. Kanal earned Wajda the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, solidifying his position as Poland's premier director.