The basic idea of this movie was good, but the end result is seriously flawed. The first, and most obvious, problem is that they chose to have german soldiers played by actors who mostly wouldn't even try to sound even vaguely german, and I never got past the point of wondering why all these english people were running around in german uniforms: this problem should have been obvious before they shot the movie and could easily have been worked around... why not make them english paratroopers stuck behind enemy lines, or something?
Beyond that, the script was confused, the ending where they finally revealed the hideous crime the soldiers were being punished for was a major letdown, and the characters were mostly so undeveloped and indistinguishable that I couldn't keep track of who was who: in a horror movie you're supposed to watch thinking "Oh no, don't let *them* get killed!", so it doesn't really work when you're thinking instead "Hang on, who was it who got killed just then? Oh, it was him, didn't he get killed ten minutes ago? No, can't have, so who was that who got killed back then? Oh, must have been that other bloke."
I'd still give it a 4 or 5 out of ten, but it's a shame they didn't spend the time fixing the script to produce a movie as good as the idea which inspired it. The biggest problem by far with British movies is that they forget that the script is the most important part of any movie, and rush off to shoot it before spending enough time getting it right. Why make a bad movie when for the sake of another month polishing the script you could make a good one?
Beyond that, the script was confused, the ending where they finally revealed the hideous crime the soldiers were being punished for was a major letdown, and the characters were mostly so undeveloped and indistinguishable that I couldn't keep track of who was who: in a horror movie you're supposed to watch thinking "Oh no, don't let *them* get killed!", so it doesn't really work when you're thinking instead "Hang on, who was it who got killed just then? Oh, it was him, didn't he get killed ten minutes ago? No, can't have, so who was that who got killed back then? Oh, must have been that other bloke."
I'd still give it a 4 or 5 out of ten, but it's a shame they didn't spend the time fixing the script to produce a movie as good as the idea which inspired it. The biggest problem by far with British movies is that they forget that the script is the most important part of any movie, and rush off to shoot it before spending enough time getting it right. Why make a bad movie when for the sake of another month polishing the script you could make a good one?