This seems to have been assembled out of bits of better World War II movies. It gives us Christopher Plummer doing Captain von Trapp in old age. It gives us, like the superior Black Book, the frisson of a German officer committing Rassenschande with a beautiful and spirited Jewish woman. It gives us intrigue by British Intelligence. It gives us the cousin of that cliché the Good German -- the Honorable Prussian Conservative, a good patriot who wants Germany to win the war, of course, but considers the Nazis to be too extreme and downright vulgar. It meditates on the fine distinctions between people who merely think that Jews are distasteful and altogether to conspicuous and influential, and people who take those opinions to their logical conclusion.
What it does have have going for it is that, however improbable the relationship written for them, Lily James and Jai Curry are extremely attractive young people who have a "boi-i-i-i-ng" moment when they first set eyes on each other and who plausibly portray sheer animal attraction. Most of what surrounds that is nonsense.
What it does have have going for it is that, however improbable the relationship written for them, Lily James and Jai Curry are extremely attractive young people who have a "boi-i-i-i-ng" moment when they first set eyes on each other and who plausibly portray sheer animal attraction. Most of what surrounds that is nonsense.