If you played wolfenstien back in the day and have seen some of the other attempts to make a movie like this then you will like this one. It is one of the better attempts at the nazi horror genre but it still falls short.
I really dont know why an excellent movie with a rich story based in historic fact is so elusive, this one still leaves us wanting but it is, on a whole, a decent enough movie.
MY only real gripe with this is the plague of social justice that infects everything coming out of hollywood at the moment.
The lead character is supposedly a private soldier from the 101st airborne infantry on his first drop behind enemies lines in operation overlord. The snag is, that he and his platoon sergeant are african americans. There were no african american infantrymen involved in this operation so why are these two here?
Not a word is said about it and of course the rest of the platoon accept them as if racism did not exist in the 1940's and it was all just perfectly normal (it wasn't).
The two actors in question did a fine job and I was almost able to forgive the producers for this but I am still left wondering why a historical white persons role was replaced with a black person. It would never be considered that white actors should play the parts of historical black characters so it leaves me with the obvious conclusion that the inclusion of two black actors playing the role of white people in a historical event (zombies not withstanding) was a simple, misguided and futile attempt to be politically correct.
I'll admit I was wrong when we see Matt Damon playing Malcolm X, Ben Afleck playing Mohammad Ali and Jesse Eisenberg playing Michael Jackson. Perhaps when they remake the next black slavery story they could cast some white people i amongst the other slaves.
It would of course be unthinkable to do that so why do they think it is ok to do it in reverse?
Keep politics out of movies, especially movies like this and if you want to have black actors involved then write them a part that makes sense and dont just substitute them for what can obviously only really be a white actors role.
Better still, stop making race an issue at all.
With that little commentary of the sorry state of hard left politics out of the way, Jovan Adepo was impressive and did not succumb to the temptation to overact or cheapen the story. He was measured, restrained and obviously a very capable actor who has control of the full range of emotions and skills that any good actor should.
Og and this is the first WW2 movie in which nobody smokes., 1944 and nobody smokes cigarettes, yeah right (more politics)
6.5 SS Cigarette Lighters out of 10.
I really dont know why an excellent movie with a rich story based in historic fact is so elusive, this one still leaves us wanting but it is, on a whole, a decent enough movie.
MY only real gripe with this is the plague of social justice that infects everything coming out of hollywood at the moment.
The lead character is supposedly a private soldier from the 101st airborne infantry on his first drop behind enemies lines in operation overlord. The snag is, that he and his platoon sergeant are african americans. There were no african american infantrymen involved in this operation so why are these two here?
Not a word is said about it and of course the rest of the platoon accept them as if racism did not exist in the 1940's and it was all just perfectly normal (it wasn't).
The two actors in question did a fine job and I was almost able to forgive the producers for this but I am still left wondering why a historical white persons role was replaced with a black person. It would never be considered that white actors should play the parts of historical black characters so it leaves me with the obvious conclusion that the inclusion of two black actors playing the role of white people in a historical event (zombies not withstanding) was a simple, misguided and futile attempt to be politically correct.
I'll admit I was wrong when we see Matt Damon playing Malcolm X, Ben Afleck playing Mohammad Ali and Jesse Eisenberg playing Michael Jackson. Perhaps when they remake the next black slavery story they could cast some white people i amongst the other slaves.
It would of course be unthinkable to do that so why do they think it is ok to do it in reverse?
Keep politics out of movies, especially movies like this and if you want to have black actors involved then write them a part that makes sense and dont just substitute them for what can obviously only really be a white actors role.
Better still, stop making race an issue at all.
With that little commentary of the sorry state of hard left politics out of the way, Jovan Adepo was impressive and did not succumb to the temptation to overact or cheapen the story. He was measured, restrained and obviously a very capable actor who has control of the full range of emotions and skills that any good actor should.
Og and this is the first WW2 movie in which nobody smokes., 1944 and nobody smokes cigarettes, yeah right (more politics)
6.5 SS Cigarette Lighters out of 10.