While I appreciated this movie and the story it wanted to tell (a story which certainly is worth telling), I'm not quite sure it managed to succeed entirely in that.
The movie covers a lot of angles and viewpoints, but the end-result is that a lot of it feels shoehorned in. What I missed the most was fluidity; a more seamless and natural progression from scene to scene. You know, an actual movie, and not just a collection of scenes glued together.
It did manage to get most of the story across, but a lot of it felt like filler for in between the battle scenes, because the battle scenes are what makes up most of this movie.
The action wasn't bad and it has some good moments, but overall it's perhaps a bit more generic than it should have been.
I'm also not quite sure how close to the truth the actual battle scenes are, but I find it highly unlikely the battles turned out the way they did if it happened exactly as the movie showed us.
All that said, its greatest flaw: a missing emotional connection. The movie could have done with about half an hour more runtime to flesh out and develop the characters so that you're actually going to care for them. I didn't care in the end and that's a real shame for a movie like this. That's what this movie was about, right? The people fighting that battle, not the battle itself. Along with the rushed ending, it feels like a missed opportunity.
Not bad, not good. 6,5/10, rounding down.
The movie covers a lot of angles and viewpoints, but the end-result is that a lot of it feels shoehorned in. What I missed the most was fluidity; a more seamless and natural progression from scene to scene. You know, an actual movie, and not just a collection of scenes glued together.
It did manage to get most of the story across, but a lot of it felt like filler for in between the battle scenes, because the battle scenes are what makes up most of this movie.
The action wasn't bad and it has some good moments, but overall it's perhaps a bit more generic than it should have been.
I'm also not quite sure how close to the truth the actual battle scenes are, but I find it highly unlikely the battles turned out the way they did if it happened exactly as the movie showed us.
All that said, its greatest flaw: a missing emotional connection. The movie could have done with about half an hour more runtime to flesh out and develop the characters so that you're actually going to care for them. I didn't care in the end and that's a real shame for a movie like this. That's what this movie was about, right? The people fighting that battle, not the battle itself. Along with the rushed ending, it feels like a missed opportunity.
Not bad, not good. 6,5/10, rounding down.