I saw this film based on IMDb reviews, and I've got to say, you got me. That star rating at the top of the page? Fooled me! Now why was this film so bad? I'm sure that director Vincent Ward had grand swirling ideas about this film, but most of it feels like a mid-quality Lifetime movie. The dialogue is bad, and making it worse is the delivery by the so-so actors. Jason Scott Lee's performance is so melodramatically over the top that my wife and I laughed most of the time that he was supposed to be "upset" or "sad". Patrick Bergin just simmers and leers, and when he talks about the bombing of Dresden and why he's ordering it to be bombed is just silly and over the top.
Like I said, most of the film feels like a Lifetime movie. Having sex on a barrage balloon? Above the dome at Albert Hall? And when Anne Parillaud drops one of her stockings down into the orchestra pit, both my wife and I said, "It's WWII, isn't that stocking going to be a little hard to replace?" When Lee's daughter shows up at the end of the film, she says the stupidest thing in the movie. You're in the Arctic circle and you say, "I'm cold."? Of course you're cold, idiot!
Most of the situations are set up as artistic and auteur-ish, but they just comes across as silly. Some of it is pretty, but it's just not worth your time.
Like I said, most of the film feels like a Lifetime movie. Having sex on a barrage balloon? Above the dome at Albert Hall? And when Anne Parillaud drops one of her stockings down into the orchestra pit, both my wife and I said, "It's WWII, isn't that stocking going to be a little hard to replace?" When Lee's daughter shows up at the end of the film, she says the stupidest thing in the movie. You're in the Arctic circle and you say, "I'm cold."? Of course you're cold, idiot!
Most of the situations are set up as artistic and auteur-ish, but they just comes across as silly. Some of it is pretty, but it's just not worth your time.