Chris Clarke

Woke garbage and confusing. Avoid.

If I could give zero stars I would. Utter woke garbage instead of news. Hold the government accountable instead of being their propaganda arm.

I wanted to like this film. I did enjoy the dialogue in Dutch, German and English as I’m not a fan of dubbed English dialogue. I thought the portrayal of the Dutch civilians was well done and gave you an insight to their sufferings under Nazi occupation. That’s where the good bits end. The glider heading to the Market-Garden DZ had FIVE guys on it? Makes no sense and the British para’s were portrayed in an unnecessarily poor light, these guys were the 'tip of the spear' in WW2, having 4 idiots on one glider seems unlikely. The sergeant glider pilot fighting with the Canadian Black Watch without his stripes and in a different regiments gear? Unlikely. Any Airborne soldier would be extremely reluctant to give up his para smock and para style tin helmet that marked him out as an elite airborne soldier, who was the technical advisor on this? I also find it highly unlikely a British Army sergeant in the Airborne (albeit the Glider Regiment of the AAC) would give up his stripes to fight as a grunt in a line regiment of a Commonwealth army. The assault by the Canadians on the causeway just didn’t ring true. At that stage in the war, the overwhelming sentiment of the Allied armies was to minimize casualties, steel over soldiers lives. That causeway would have (and was) at the receiving end of an artillery barrage BEFORE the main assault and the artillery would have been providing continuous support throughout the battle. The premise that the Can/UK assault was reliant on a stolen map seems well iffy. The Brits would have had excellent pre-war admiralty charts of all of the coastlines of Europe, especially Holland which only is 350 km away and has been a destination for British and English ships since Roman times. The plot had its moments but there were too many ‘main’ characters to keep my interest and none of them were very well developed. It’s great pity about this film, I’m a bit of a war film buff and ex-military myself. I enjoy re-watching a good one, this won’t be watched again, but I will be watching ‘A Bridge too Far’ tonight instead. This film was a waste of 2 hours and 7 minutes.