Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

neocanuckbd It was obvious that some decent money was spent to get various scenes of a Zeppelin in action. I can't understand why they settled for such a poor and muddled plot. The whole premise of the raid didn't really make much sense to begin with, and coupled with mediocre script writing and direction, the movie really failed to capture it's potential.

webmaster-2717 At this stage of the First World War, Britain was crucially dependent for shell propellant on HM Factory Gretna (Moorside) with its immense nitration facilities for guncotton and nitroglycerine. There are claims that the Cumbrian Fells and Pennines 'protected' this strategic target from air attack.Whilst Staaken and Gotha aircraft had a limited 800 km range, the Zeppelins would have been superb strategic bombers to attack HM Factory Gretna. The Zeppelin could have hovered out of range of ground fire and dropped small bombs precisely onto nitration facilities, acetone works, glycerine works and acid plant.Similar facilities such as Waltham Forest and Holton Heath - both in easy range, in southern England - were never attacked either. What did the German government think it was up to ? Attacking the explosive works would have left Britain without the means to hold the Western Front and could certainly have prolonged the war. It would have forced the redeployment of fighter squadrons to defend the works and other potential industrial targets.

MartinHafer While I will admit that the plot of ZEPPELIN is okay and not the best I have ever seen, I still like this movie a lot. Michael York plays a British agent that pretends to defect in order to learn the German airship secrets. Along the way he meets the extremely attractive Elke Sommer, though what all that has to do with war, I never was really certain.The film concerns an era that we seldom talk about--WWI and the terror that seized the Allies when the Germans first rained bombs on an unsuspecting London. For the life of me, I can't recall another movie that mentions this in any way, so historically speaking this is an important topic.I was fortunate enough to have seen this film on the big screen when it first came out in the very early 1970s. I remember sitting in the first row in the balcony and watching the big screen as the Zeppelin first appeared up out of the clouds--pretty reminiscent of the shark attacking in the later film, JAWS! Much of the film is set on the dirigible, the scenery is great and the Zeppelin scenes are pretty realistic. Give it a try--it's a forgotten and worthwhile film.

de_niro_2001 Although this was made for the cinema it is like a cheap early 1970s made-for-tv film. I am a great aviation enthusiast and have learned a lot about all aspects of aviation and the film is full of inaccuracies. The technique of mooring an airship to a tower wasn't developed until the 1920s. The film is set in 1915 but the SE5a fighter plane didn't enter service until 1917. The British didn't also have the machinery for firing a machine gun through a spinning propellor until 1916. Yes, there may be similar inaccuracies in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles but they are entertaining and they have a sense of humour. This film has about as much sense of humour as the German officers who appear in it. It's laughable though how svelte and beautiful Elke Sommer could be even remotely interested in sickly middle-aged Marius Goring let alone married to him. If you watch this film, just imagine it's Basil Exposition's grandfather on his first espionage mission (the presence of one of Austin Powers' ancestors would have enlivened proceedings!)