Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

JaynaB ... an anti-war movie from its first moments.Owen Sheers, author of the novel on which the movie was based, was raised in the valleys where the movie is filmed, and heard about the training for local resistance cells to be activated in the event of invasion. He could predict the likely responses of the people there, and this, perhaps, is what gives the characters their silent, enduring truth.An alternate-history WW2 movie in which D-Day was anticipated correctly by the Germans and the USA didn't (apparently) enter the war, 'Resistance' joins 'The Last Valley' and 'Midnight Clear' as a psychological double-act of both exploring and exposing war. It's a haunting and intimate look at war as an act committed - or not - by individuals rather than nations, with unspoken combat ongoing between individuals and their own values, their own allegiances, their own communities.A film that sticks in your head and heart when far more active war films have blurred into one amorphous mass of explosions and blood.

ncisabbyfan30 I'm big on war movies and I bought this cause the plot seemed appealing. I just got done watching it and it made me wish I could get my money back. This was more of a sappy love story between a woman whose husband left the village to presumably join the resistance and a German officer who stumbles upon her home cause they want to set up an outpost in the village. Considering what the title of the movie is, I expected to see action between resistance fighters and the Nazis. I saw none of that in this film. Since when is shooting a horse a normal action from a resistance fighter? This was pretty much the only action in the whole film if you don't count the random flashbacks that explain nothing. Complete waste of time.

davidmurray1917 DOES CONTAIN PLOT SPOILERSThe back story is this 'D-Day fails, Germany invades UK'. That's it, no other explanation, no other context. There is a serious issue as to whether of not The Third Reich had any intention to invade the UK even in 1940. There is a good argument that it did not. To suppose that it had such plans in 1944, when it was fighting a desperate and loosing struggle against the Soviet Union is ridiculous. To suppose that had the D-Day landings been repulsed Germany would then have switched to the offensive, by-passing the months of planning and logistical preparation that would have been required for a Channel crossing, is at the level of a kid's comic.But this, as it were macro-absurdity, is then echoed by a whole series of absurdities at every level of the plot (using that word loosely):1) The men of the village disappear, supposedly to fight the Germans, but we hear nothing of the.2) The German unit is tasked to find an ancient map, which, supposedly will be used by Himmler to validate his ideology. Er, how, and why? And how come the unit is of the Wehrmacht, not the SS?3) The map is 'hidden' in a cave and is found by the German commander on this first search. I mean, really !!4) We're told that the Germans are stranded in the valley over Winter, but what we see of the weather is nothing very special, even by Brit standards, and far less severe than the conditions on the Eastern Front which the German military would have been dealing with for 3 years !!5) For no good reason the Germans start to wear civvies, supposedly because their uniforms are 'wearing out'. This is just beyond silly, and anyway, didn't they have spares ?6) At one point a Welshman is caught by the German unit, supposedly having been 'interrogated by the Gestapo' - the only damage to him appears to be a bit of facial bruising, no more than could have been received in a barney down the boozer on a Saturday night. OK, this is supposed to be an 'alternate history' work, but a Gestapo whose interrogation goes no further than a few smacks to the face is just too alternate for credibility.The overall premise has possibilities. None of these are explored. This is a worthless movie, utterly devoid of serious ideas or any moral or political dimension.

sianviv Not as bad as some people say not as good either! If you want pretentiously bad try 'The Hours'. At least no-one was wearing a Groucho' nose. Excellent cinematography - superbly atmospheric views and angles. On reflection, sensitive acting - but I couldn't find/feel empathy with any character - I found it rather unsatisfying to be a detached observer. Far too few jokes (none in fact?) The penultimate scene/action - and possibly the first act of resistance shown by Ms Riseborough's character was nihilistic, an act of vandalism rather than a statement about truth or freedom. Was the final 'ride into the sunset' or murky mists, meant to be ambiguous - a walk to death or to seek out her husband or merely Sarah's need to escape claustrophobia