It suceeded in not being a B movie. Probably closer to a 'C'. A revenge film about killing Nazis.
Cast was fair. The casted leading characters were far from what one expected as heros. Saying that, one wanders how this film got so many known names to make appearances? Jacob Keohane, Corinne Britti, Arnold Visloo, Michael Ironside, Jorge Garcia, Jackson Rathbone, Bruce Davison, and James Urbaniak. Most, like Michael Iron, are simply quick appearances of older known actors, in Nazi uniforms.
Even with much if the cast underutilized, acting was good.
In this day and age of every video buff making great cgi to fool people on Facebook, this cgi lack having much (if any).
Normally, being a fan of real explosions and crashes, I'd say it would it would make this film better. It does not. Every situation where FX is needed is avoided by a "cut away/cut back". Plane crash... cut away, cut back to a plane prop in a field of undamage grass. Or a car explosion cut back to a car in fire with doors open and no damage other than a fire. Of course this can work in movie magic, but fails here due to the horrible props. As for the props, poor is an understatement. It's written that the crashed B-17 prop took a year to build in NC. Sad they didn't take a week to make the field look like a crash site.
(Note: the footage and crew used in the short B17 flight sequences was the same one thst crashed in a mid-air collision in 2022.)
The filming locations were good. Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni to Argentina's Buenos Aires, we're background in scenes, but no attempt to take advantage of location by adding location scenery footage was made. For as little that was used, it could have been done frernscreen of allot less and monies could have been used for better action fx.
Music, though reported composed by Christof Unterberger, who has many film credits, was poor. I myself believe he just scored canned music for scenarios. Sone drama music, some action music, sone background scores. I don't think it was actually scored to the film. Just added in post production. I doubt seriously if Christof ever saw the film he made the music for. In fact he probably just made this canned music and it was purchased to be added.
All in all, one can make it through to the end if you watch it with the expectation that its more like a 1980's filmed for TV film. It's kind of sad.
I think just a bit more put into FX of the action scenes, adding some scenic cinematography and actually scoring music to scenes instead of just adding background music, could have made this a much better film. Espicially with the line up of talent.
Cast was fair. The casted leading characters were far from what one expected as heros. Saying that, one wanders how this film got so many known names to make appearances? Jacob Keohane, Corinne Britti, Arnold Visloo, Michael Ironside, Jorge Garcia, Jackson Rathbone, Bruce Davison, and James Urbaniak. Most, like Michael Iron, are simply quick appearances of older known actors, in Nazi uniforms.
Even with much if the cast underutilized, acting was good.
In this day and age of every video buff making great cgi to fool people on Facebook, this cgi lack having much (if any).
Normally, being a fan of real explosions and crashes, I'd say it would it would make this film better. It does not. Every situation where FX is needed is avoided by a "cut away/cut back". Plane crash... cut away, cut back to a plane prop in a field of undamage grass. Or a car explosion cut back to a car in fire with doors open and no damage other than a fire. Of course this can work in movie magic, but fails here due to the horrible props. As for the props, poor is an understatement. It's written that the crashed B-17 prop took a year to build in NC. Sad they didn't take a week to make the field look like a crash site.
(Note: the footage and crew used in the short B17 flight sequences was the same one thst crashed in a mid-air collision in 2022.)
The filming locations were good. Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni to Argentina's Buenos Aires, we're background in scenes, but no attempt to take advantage of location by adding location scenery footage was made. For as little that was used, it could have been done frernscreen of allot less and monies could have been used for better action fx.
Music, though reported composed by Christof Unterberger, who has many film credits, was poor. I myself believe he just scored canned music for scenarios. Sone drama music, some action music, sone background scores. I don't think it was actually scored to the film. Just added in post production. I doubt seriously if Christof ever saw the film he made the music for. In fact he probably just made this canned music and it was purchased to be added.
All in all, one can make it through to the end if you watch it with the expectation that its more like a 1980's filmed for TV film. It's kind of sad.
I think just a bit more put into FX of the action scenes, adding some scenic cinematography and actually scoring music to scenes instead of just adding background music, could have made this a much better film. Espicially with the line up of talent.