Cubussoli
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
MusicChat
It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
peterburton-26720
Poor movie, none of the surrounds look like France, only of England. Also very poor acting. What is appalling is at the end it mentions Johnny Barrows received a Victoria Cross for his bravery. This is an insult for the real hero's that earn't the VC during wartime. The producers should face legal action for this insult!!
tyljam
I bought this DVD in Asda for £5 under the renamed title D day survivors with a different cover photo so don't be fooled into thinking it is a different film. It is a low budget film and that shows as everything about the film is wrong. The landscape is nothing like Normandy or any part of Northern France. The uniforms are wrong the guns are wrong and a scene near the end where they attack a pill box which looks 70 years old is just unbelievable. In fact there isn't any scene in this film that is believable walking through fields in broad daylight and why would a German soldier have been out in the fields on his own. the sounds of gun shots travel far in open space yet no one heard any shots in an area far from the invasion areas and investigated. It is supposed to be based on true events which i find highly unlikely. How film makers get away with making such rubbish is a travesty to all the millions who died during WW2. The soundtrack is also awful and in parts has an opera style female vocal in the background which is totally put of place. I regret squandering my money on this rubbish.
dagallop
This is no Saving Private Ryan, but a) I don't think that is what they were trying to achieve and b) I bet the budget for the entire movie was equal to the lowest paid extra in Saving Private Ryan! It has all of the qualities of a plausible set of events, and I believe that short of the one scene (you'll know it when you see it), I doubt the plot is far from how it really happened. The acting was good, although the fatalities in the flying bullets scenes need to refine the 'sack of spuds' principal, it actually looked more like they were coached to 'tuck and roll'! I particularly liked the fact that they didn't try and add too many people in the 'events'. I personally find it unrealistic in some movies that you don't see the individual vehicle traveling along the road. I believe that Rommel was actually wounded because a pilot did see a single staff car opportunity and took it! Not everywhere was full on convoys. To sum up; great story line and very believable (on the whole), good acting and most of all entertaining as well as having realistic characters. I would suggest to anyone that enjoys a 'based on true events' movie, this is a good watch.
Katherine Griffiths
I bought this film because it was cheap (£3 on DVD) and I am glad I didn't spend more. The story line has potential but was not used to its fullest potential at all. The British weapons were wrong. It looked like they used M1 Garrands (standard US issue) rather than the Short Magazine Lee Enfield Mk4 (SMLE) and I also very doubt that a private (craftsman) in the REME would have been issued with a Tommy Gun. He would have been issued with either a Sten or SMLE.The acting was wooden and the obvious tension between Barrows and Murphy could have been made more of. The scene where the captured SS officer translates the French to the English for the squad is laughable. The actor playing Rock who is suffering from shell shock played that really well. I have seen shell shock and it does manifest itself in this way.This film claims to be based on truth. If so then they need to apologise. They claim the Johnny Barrows won the VC. There is no record of anyone of that name winning a VC ever let alone in the Normandy Campaign (I have a book that lists every VC winner. In fact the only VC won by a member of the REME was in WW1 by a Lt Graham Lyall VC on 28th September 1918). I think it is sad and insulting for that claim to be made by the producers of the film that claims to be based on real events.
