Review of Warsaw 44

Warsaw 44 (2014)
8/10
Mostly good and sometimes bad.
10 August 2015
Warning: Spoilers
For emotion I give it 10/10.

Plot was reasonably interesting, there was some character development, however the main character's actions during the film were often questionable.

I felt that they basically threw together random facts and then hammered it together into a story and threw a love triangle in just to make it interesting.

Some historical facts were covered hurriedly and not explained or emphasized clearly. The fact that all buildings were to be destroyed unless Poland surrendered was very hurriedly mentioned.

Furthermore the combat did not seem representative of the statistical kill ratios as recorded. Statistically the number of Polish resistance casualties was similar to the number of Nazi troop casualties. In the film the Polish troops seem to drop like flies and you almost never see any Nazis being killed, except for in room to room engagements.

I also believe that some of the scenes were unnecessary, the unrealistic kissing scene.

Overall I enjoyed the film until I thought about the plot after finishing the film. To me the plot felt unsatisfying, but this is my subjective opinion.

I must however praise the film for trying to include as many historical events as possible.

However I am irritated at the lack of any mention about the weapons manufactured by the resistance. During the Polish uprising, the Polish underground manufactured nearly 1000 Błyskawica submachine guns. I saw none of these during the film. I know it's costly to make a functioning replica of this, but they didn't have to, they could have made a non-functioning replica and had some of the men carrying them. They didn't even mention that they were manufacturing this or that they were manufacturing VIS pistols. You do at least see 1 VIS pistol during the film.
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