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Absolutely dire! Totally ridiculous plot accompanied by some of the worst, most wooden acting I've seen for year. At times Hartnett has a weird grin than mostly looks like he finds it hilarious that he accepted the role

Lots of good performances, but sooo many completely odious characters!

Such a strange mix. Some great cast mixed in with some incredibly wooden acting. A huge amount of potential in the story, but constantly let down by either terrible writing or robotic direction. Its like someone with great industry connections let their rather entitled but enormously empowered 14 yr old daughter loose, got her to take a super fast flick through history ... and this was the outcome

Absolute nonsense from start to end, one of the worst ever Holywood/Gibson rewritings of actual historical events. Even a basic level of research quickly tells us what actually happened, yet this drivel still shamelessly flips the nature, actions and deeds of extremely well documented historical characters. And to an even greater extent, it reverses how, when and where nearly everything that happens in this film actually went down at the time. While the clue of what another Gibsonised version of history would deliver was always in the title, patriotic fervour really did a number on history with this one.

Absolutely dire, has to be the lowest budget film I've seen for years!

What was building up to be a good, if seriously exaggerated version of the real events, the film fell apart around 50 mins by suddenly, and inexplicably, departing from the "based on a real story" credibility. Something sadly reinforced rather than rescuing it as the last 20 mins finally returned to mearish reality, and then tragically through final credits showing the real people who risked their lives on the actual mission. So what's all the made up stuff about? Regardless of some messed up need to exploit anything genuinely inspiring, it's just so disrespectful to take such liberties with an historical event when people risked their lives to protect tje unique modern freedoms we so take for granted. Part of why this riles so much is that my father's father died at the age of 21 in Nov 1942 after 3 years of near continuous service, close to the time this film was set, when his ship was sunk. It happened within a few days of when his son was born, so they never even met. 82 years on and my Dad's done more and served so many times over thann most of us could remotely imagine, yet is somehow still a truly gentle soul. That said, while he's also incredibly resilient and tough, I dread to think what he would feel seeing this pulp version of a horrible, tragic chain of events for most involved.

This was actually quite good for a lot of the film. Could have given it 4 stars except for two big negatives. Ironically, the worst part was Masie Williams, the high profile draw, putting in such a dreadful, totally unconvincing performance as most of the rest of the cast were at least decent. The other was the reveal of the completely ott stereotypical evil boss at the top, at which point it tumbled even faster.

Despite some genuinely funny moments, this is essentially just a shameless, wholesale theft of ideas from movies of similar genre. As a film, it's pretty rubbish, including some desperately weak efforts to work in victim culture tropes, while also somehow putting the writer/directors own prejudices on full display! All that said, this had the potential for one hell of a funny spoof on the genre. Sadly, it seems a very different set of priorities held sway

What could have been a really good film and appears to have a significant budget ends up being a load of utter tripe! Terrible direction scene after scene, combined with some truly dreadful performances keeps giving the impression that it is actually a spoof on the genre and must have been done deliberately. Yes Sophie Cookson is very attractive, but she is a bizarre mix between smarmy and wooden - she simply cannot act at all. Mark Wahlberg turns in one of his most ridiculous performances and the rest of the casting missed the target time and again. The sole exception to the above is Chiwetel Ejiofor who was his usual excellent self ... quite a feat considering the rubbish he was surrounded by. One to definitely avoid!

Doing up cars on the very cheap. They don't upgrade performance, buy in a few parts and give it a horrible neon look. But they still endlessly big themselves up with chummy backslapping ... avoid, or it will annoy you so much you threaten your TV!