Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed

2012
5.7| 1h34m| PG-13| en
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On August 15, 1944 the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team (PRCT) jumped over the south of France. Their mission was to support and protect the Allied Troops marching to Berlin. Landing in enemy territory, they fell under immediate attack. In their effort to complete the mission and rendez-vous with their unit, three isolated paratroopers come across a group of French resistants in desperate need. They decide to help liberate some of the captive Partisans. Doing so they will risk their lives.

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Niels-Peter Gade That this film only holds a score of 5.5 on this site is beyond me... I thought the movie was excellent, especially considering its low budget and short running time.Be warned that I am a huge admirer of American Airborne troops in WWII, so maybe I am biased when reviewing this film. I guess you will have to be a little nerdy about Paratroopers to really appreciate Sains and Soldiers: Airborne Creed.With that in mind, I thought the story was compelling, the characters interesting and believable, the score was nice and fitting, and the acting was overall great. The ending was a little unusual (not what I had expected at all), but also original and thought-provoking.All in all, I thought this was a great movie, and I highly recommend it, especially if you have a little passion for WWII Paratroopers. I almost didn't watch it because of the low score it holds on this website, but I ended up watching it anyway, and it was totally worth it. So don't get fooled by the low score! 9/10
kliffnotes It is just historically inaccurate. The one GI's girlfriend gives him a camera and tells him to send her a photo, every week. Duh,is it a digital camera or a Polaroid? Of course not so where does he get that film developed...Adolf's One Hour Photo? Also, this chick's hair is very modern looking, definitely not a 40's hairstyle. When the GI with the mo-hawk is with his original unit, he is wearing a plain helmet. Later, it sprouts netting. The one guy's helmet has a paratrooper chin strap and the other guy's does not. In addition, the french resistance girl has zip up boots, not authentic to the period. We make a big deal of D- Day and the war in Europe but keep in mind that 69% of the German Army and 90% of the elite troops were deployed on the Russian Front.OK, enough of the negative. I do feel that the actors tried really hard to do a good job and Lincoln Hoppe had very good intentions, trying to show soldiers on both sides as people, not just stereotypes. As a whole, this is a watchable and entertaining movie. I enjoyed the special features as well as the film.
Theo Robertson This is a prequel to the 2003 film SAINTS AND SOLDIERS . It seems very strange producing a film ten years after especially if it's as quickly forgotten as the original . That said the original S&S was a different type of war film that put a human face on war . The point it made was that wars aren't fought by combatants but by human beings and this prequel follows in the same footsteps Actually it perhaps follows a bit too slavishly . If you didn't notice the point in the 2003 movie then AIRBORN CREED will remind even the densest viewer . The opening scene features a German officer talking to his young son - while he arranges the execution of two French resistance members . Interesting that he's not some goose stepping dogmatic Nazi ideologue but a normal member of the Wehrmacht . The rest of the film continues in the same vein with the same strengths and weaknesses as the first film . It's never as deep and as profound as it thinks it is and my abiding memory of it is Americans and Frenchmen fighting alongside one another which is not something you see very often in Hollywood war movies
pd2905 Saints and Soldiers surprised me by the one dimensional shabby characters involved in it and the Hollywood shabby portrayal of German soldiers as monsters. Some good shooting and movie techniques give it nice technical quality. Clearly the concept of war is unclear to the writer even more than it is to me. If you wish to waste your time on an hour long political propaganda well this is your movie. Even a kid could see that these people never existed and never will exist- recommendation if you feel like watching something which does not involve too much thinking there is the move "6 bullets" with Van Damme. Personally the first ten minutes of this movie felt like an insult to my intelligence after that it gets funny. To the creator of this movie and to all the other Hollywood filmmakers: please stop wasting resources trying to change history and the awareness of young people. And by the way, if Germany had not attacked Russia all of Europe would have spoken German probably.