Living in Hungary, I wondered what Hollywood had created about my country's history, making it in Romania!
Well, they created a disaster.
The characters are always calling each other's name, sometimes three times within a minute, just like in poor South-American soap operas.
The Hungarian soldiers seem to wear Romanian uniform!
When the Germans invade Hungary, they parade with Russian T-34 tanks!
The hictorical facts are raped for the sake of making this movie. For example, military labour service for Jews is announced on posters, but in reality they were offically drafted. or
the certificate of baptism is printed in English too in a small town in Hungary in '44 or
they portray the deportation of the Jews from the countryside as if they had taken men to work camps first so they could depart women and children more easily, which is nonsense as all of them were transported to Nazi lagers.
They show Skorzeny (probably because he had an ugly scar on his face) calling on Governor Horthy in the summer of '44 along with a Nazi-symphatizer Hungarian politician, Ferenc Szálasi, which is also nonsense because Skorzeny was a leader of a German comando which kidnapped Horthy's son in October.
The list could go on. All I feel sorry for is the waste of my time and Ben Kingsley.
The list could go on. All I feel sorry for is the waste of my time and Ben Kingsley.