Jon Sharples

This was an awful film. I’m sure someone thought they were making some sort of metaphor for the dangers of toxic masculinity but what they vomited up was a very strange mess of a movie with a truly terrible plot. Virtually no part of it was believable in any way, shape or form. Doesn’t even make it into the category of ‘so bad it’s good.’ It’s just…… so bad.

I went to see this with one of my sons and son in law. Each of us was hugely disappointed by the film. It was probably an hour too long and the sham ‘trial’ (this is not a trial) was laboured for far too long as everyone knew how it would turn out. Some scenes were breathtaking, but it was let down overall by spending far, far too much time on other parts of the story away from the actual development of the war winning bomb. Some of the dialogue was lost beneath the incessant musical score which drowned out on-scene action at times. Maybe American audiences will lap this story up, but for 3 Brits in their 30s, 40s and 50s it was a long evening wasted.