The plucky chaps of dear old Blighty on a mission to infiltrate a bunker come up against a barrage of obstacles – not least the question of how this got made
Somewhere, a corner of Great Britain is still mentally fighting the second world war. Nothing else explains how this kind of wanly acted, flyboys-sock-it-to-the-Boche autopilot outing could attract funding in the 2020s. It has the full deck of cliches: the missus back in Blighty popping up in flashback to pep up the beleaguered hero, fortuitously positioned breast-pocket contents foiling death, and ailing squaddies staying behind with their finger on the trigger: “Go! Somebody needs to stay here to make sure this place goes up!”
The plucky hero is Raf Captain Robert Banks (Joseph Millson), ordered to parachute into occupied south-east France to infiltrate a Nazi bunker where a French resistance leader, Pierre Lavigne (Ronan Summers), is possibly being held. The...
Somewhere, a corner of Great Britain is still mentally fighting the second world war. Nothing else explains how this kind of wanly acted, flyboys-sock-it-to-the-Boche autopilot outing could attract funding in the 2020s. It has the full deck of cliches: the missus back in Blighty popping up in flashback to pep up the beleaguered hero, fortuitously positioned breast-pocket contents foiling death, and ailing squaddies staying behind with their finger on the trigger: “Go! Somebody needs to stay here to make sure this place goes up!”
The plucky hero is Raf Captain Robert Banks (Joseph Millson), ordered to parachute into occupied south-east France to infiltrate a Nazi bunker where a French resistance leader, Pierre Lavigne (Ronan Summers), is possibly being held. The...
- 1/9/2024
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
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