Bravo. This is the kind of war story that movies were made for. It almost has a Robert Aldrich feel, something of the grim pessimism of his one set in Germany about the ones taking apart bombs, 10 seconds to hell, and because Wajda was able to use the leftover ruins still abounding from the war, well, seldom did war look so real. The great thing about the film is how everything is jam packed into this one, such a welter of emotions. When you get down to it there are not many great war movies, but this is one. And if there was even a movie to be watched in the dank cavern of a movie house,this is the one. Ashes and Diamonds is also quite good, but there Wajda was a bit preachy. Here the situation will not allow him to be anything but brutally honest.
Review of Kanal
