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Tali-Ihantala 1944 (2007)
If you can't say anything good...
you shouldn't say anything at all. But I'll have to say something. I was so disappointed.
When you get your actors from a badly acted Finnish soap-opera, you'll get the level of acting too. Most of the time acting & dialog feels like a parody from a 1950s Finnish military-farce; even when the movie tries to bee precisely accurate to the real incidents or dialogs. In many scenes I felt embarrassment towards the actors. Amount of clichés was overwhelming. 'nuff said.
It's understandable that most of the scenes feel lose from the whole picture, as the movie chops the main battles of the Ihantala in different parts. But still most of the scenes feel way too shallow and short. The battle scenes are way too short and clean to be in a war movie. War ain't suppose to be pretty, that is just wrong for the sake of the audience and for the war veterans we want to honor.
Sound-world was flat, or the movie theater were I went didn't know how to use the volume. I know that you can't talk with regular tone of voice inside a battle tank, not nowadays and specially not in WW2 era. Weird choice from the director was play the classical soundtrack in-front and the battle noises at-back in few battle scenes, where it would have worked obviously much better in the other way.
Well only good thing was that movie was, in a big picture, faithful for the real events. Director did give a notice that Finns lost a lot of ground in the beginning of the Ihantala battle. Unfortunately the movie managed to hide the most intense defense-battles at the end.
I could recommend few much better TV-documentaries, more informative, more intense..