Stiff upper lips, quiet heroism, and so on... Yes, all there.
And the emphasis on the small back room boffins was appropriate. But there was no sense of real desperation - maybe you have had to have been a european film maker who experienced occupation for that.
And why the childish insertion of a love story to ginger up the plot? Delete that and you would have had a tighter, more compelling one. If looking for emotion or pathos or the pity of war, which perhaps the love story was groping towards, surely the life and death of the man whose body became the man who never was might have provided that hook, if explored a little more thoroughly?
There were flashes of wit - using Ian Fleming to frame his own plot was clever and Johnny Flynn's unerring ear did the voiceover well. The cast was full of excellent actors all of whom could deliver those lines and torpid plot points in their sleep.
Is this the best that the British film industry can do? And why is the British film industry still fighting WW2? Can't we face up to the battles of the present and the yet to come?
And the emphasis on the small back room boffins was appropriate. But there was no sense of real desperation - maybe you have had to have been a european film maker who experienced occupation for that.
And why the childish insertion of a love story to ginger up the plot? Delete that and you would have had a tighter, more compelling one. If looking for emotion or pathos or the pity of war, which perhaps the love story was groping towards, surely the life and death of the man whose body became the man who never was might have provided that hook, if explored a little more thoroughly?
There were flashes of wit - using Ian Fleming to frame his own plot was clever and Johnny Flynn's unerring ear did the voiceover well. The cast was full of excellent actors all of whom could deliver those lines and torpid plot points in their sleep.
Is this the best that the British film industry can do? And why is the British film industry still fighting WW2? Can't we face up to the battles of the present and the yet to come?