BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Karlee The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

MVictorPjinsiste What's the matter with war movies of late? All of them seem to be emphazing the "human element" over that of strategy, in an attempt to say "look at how war is bad" and then cash on it anyway.This one joins the bandwagon. I starts well enough, with a fast prelude and great bombardment scenes (the sound aspect is well done), notably with a superb CGI rendering of Schleswig-Holstein, the old battleship that fired the first shot of WWII. If it continued that way that would have been a fine movie indeed.But then it gets lost in the details, and slowly, gradually, comes to ignore all strategical aspects to concentrate on the opposition of officers and contemplation of the soldiers' sordid stuff that made their days. Screen time is lost to insignificant episodes (like the hallucinating parts) while the spectator is held in ignorance of everything tactical. We don't even heard about the USSR also invading Poland at the same time.Otherwise, pictures are beautiful, the sets and costumes are superb, the actors are okay and the music is fine.

Magda Lena Although there are many complaints about this movie it shows the drama and deceit of Poland by France and England who did not come to help. It shows that when you face surrender or fighting to the last man the choice is not easy. Even though there are no major scenes of battle it shows the drama of fighting without external help with lack of medical supplies and it shows that in the tragedy of the situation the soldiers did the best they could. God bless those men who died for POLAND. God bless their souls. Germany. We WILL NEVER forget!!! We will never forget what communists did to WW2 heroes after the war when too many of them had no pension and means to survive. Modern globalist propaganda is equally bad as German and Soviet one. Do not confuse patriotism and honor with being against other countries. Protect your countries and love them.

denis888 This film may be viewed as a remake of 1967's Polish classic, Westerplatte, and in some ways it is a real remake, as many scenes were very precisely reproduced, the scenery is almost identical to old black and white version. And many battle scenes are also very close to that old film. As well as some characters. Yes, full color version seems better, as well as many video FXs and some sound production. Yes, the morbid reality of deaths in action is shown pretty well, too. And then, some weaker moments creep in. The camera work is often repeating the excellent ideas of 1920. Bitwa Warszawska, but this time in a more amateur way. The heavy handed play of almost all main actors makes this already plodding film a real slow snail at a painful pace. Many moments seem very odd and totally unnecessary. What is really bad, the film often badly borders on a sheer amateurism and therefore the tragic feel of loss and failure is lost wholly. Thighs film can be watched once, for the knowledge reasons, and then quite quickly dismissed as a languid attempt at really exciting and very interesting page of History.

Greg Balazy I don't blame foreigners if they can't see the controversy behind this movie but to read a Pole's review with such little understanding ...shocking. The original title of this film in Polish reads "The secret of Westerplatte". And that is what matters here. Westerplatte became a legend of Polish resistance,national symbol of heroism and sacrifice. Generations were brought up with this myth of Poland's Thermopylae. Historical truth though was much prosaic and this movie is more like a documentary which tries to give the honest account of events and raise some important questions about the sens of sending people to unnecessary death and suffering. For God's sake - this is what this film is about. And yes, soldiers of Westeplatte and in all other places like it, were dying in horror, behaving often in completely nonsensical, cowardly way, losing they cool, senses, dignity. This is a true picture of war. Poland lost 6 million people in it, mostly due to so much resistance we put up. Was it worth anything? That is what this film is about. Don't expect a B class war movie. It ain't.