Dark Blue World
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Movie Reviews of Dark Blue World
Movie Review: Amazingly Good
Summary: 5 Stars
People tend to compare this with Pearl Harbor. What an insult. Pearl Harbor is a dumb American action-packed typical nonsensical piece of rubbish Hollywood pumps out weekly in dozens. DARK BLUE WORLD is a fantastic film on the level of Amadeus or Kolya. The dogfight action looks real unlike the star wars computer over-aided nonsense of Pearl Harbor in which planes routinely take right angle turns and perform aerobatics violating all laws of physics.
Beside that, of course, DARK BLUE WORLD has a story in it and an awesome set of real-life characters. This is something Hollywood has never attempted as the LA bimbos mistake personality with heavy makeup, frizzy hairs, and revealing uncomfortable jump suits for their "lovely" world-saving heroines.
People that make this comparison don't deserve this movie and should go back to their Terminator sequences and films in which Bruce Willis saves the planet from the evil bad guys. That's the level of entertainment these people can fathom.
Dark Blue World is perhaps one of the best movies ever. It ranks up there with Amadeus, Some Like It Hot and stuff like that.
If you wanna see action, slo-motion explosions, bucketful of gore and sleazy sex scenes, you'll have to buy something else, something Hollywood. This movie is for people with minds and hearts.
R. Friedman
Movie Review: Fantastic Story of War, Friendship, Love, and Loss
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great movie and I would concur with the reviewer who said that it would have been phenomenally successful, if weren't a "foreign" movie. The story of the friendship between an older man and his younger protégée is wonderfully handled. I was struck by how this movie explores what it is like for men to be platonically intimate in a way you almost never see in American movies. This closeness between the two main characters, makes the later tension between them much more powerful as well as much more believable. The woman's character is multilayered. Her complex feelings for these men as well as her missing husband, is messy, which is the way in which man real-life relationship can be, particularly in the context of the trauma of war.
While this is a war movie, it is by no means just a war movie. It really is a movie about mature human relationships, with all the nuances and complexities that they bring. It's a story about characters that I come to like and believe are real and their struggles with love (both platonic and romantic), loyalty, and loss. This might be one of those ultimate "date" flicks: enough action for most guys, but not too much for most gals; enough relationship stuff for most gals, but not too mushy for most guys. A nice balance and a great movie.
Movie Review: Excellent - Don't bother Bruckheimer's burped Perl Harbor
Summary: 5 Stars
You should see this movie first if you haven't seen Bruckenheimer's soaped up "Pearl Harbor" (the title itself bears the director's pretentiousness - as no one would dare to name his or her movie `Normandy'). This movie came from Czech Republic as almost out of nowhere. It will most likely surprise you. You would like an authentic recreation of aerial battle (check out the light and shadows of the skies) and the roars of mighty Spitfires against Luftwaffe! What makes a difference in this WWII film with a twist of their unfortunate post war fate is an atmosphere and smell of the European theatre without forgetting a witty side of humanity. The film is beautifully done with a bonus blow up of a real locomotive, while you also notice the plenty of early 21st century SFX with even a greater care and love of a hobbyist making a bunch of model airplanes. By watching this movie you will likely notice the proximity where Hollywood still miserably fails with its over-melodramatic and self-righteous choreographs in other mass-produced war movies you've seen way too many. I bet the director Jan Sverak will eventually become next Wolfgang Petersen or someone in that caliber. - You will find yourself rewarded. (PS: If you can stand only English-speaking movies then you may dismiss this one.)Movie Review: Excellent - Don't bother Bruckheimer's burped Perl Harbor
Summary: 5 Stars
You should see this movie first if you haven't seen Bruckenheimer's soaped up "Pearl Harbor" (the title itself bears the director's pretentiousness - as no one would dare to name his or her movie `Normandy'). This movie came from Czech Republic as almost out of nowhere. It will most likely surprise you. You would like an authentic recreation of aerial battle (check out the light and shadows of the skies) and the roars of mighty Spitfires against Luftwaffe! What makes a difference in this WWII film with a twist of their unfortunate post war fate is an atmosphere and smell of the European theatre without forgetting a witty side of humanity. The film is beautifully done with a bonus blow up of a real locomotive, while you also notice the plenty of early 21st century SFX with even a greater care and love of a hobbyist making a bunch of model airplanes. By watching this movie you will likely notice the proximity where Hollywood still miserably fails with its over-melodramatic and self-righteous choreographs in other mass-produced war movies you've seen way too many. I bet the director Jan Sverak will eventually become next Wolfgang Petersen or someone in that caliber. - You will find yourself rewarded. (PS: If you can stand only English-speaking movies then you may dismiss this one.)Movie Review: Excellent - Don't bother Bruckheimer's burped Perl Harbor
Summary: 5 Stars
You should see this movie first if you haven't seen Bruckenheimer's soaped up "Pearl Harbor" (the title itself bears the director's pretentiousness - as no one would dare to name his or her movie `Normandy'). This movie came from Czech Republic as almost out of nowhere. It will most likely surprise you. You would like an authentic recreation of aerial battle (check out the light and shadows of the skies) and the roars of mighty Spitfires against Luftwaffe! What makes a difference in this WWII film with a twist of their unfortunate post war fate is an atmosphere and smell of the European theatre without forgetting a witty side of humanity. The film is beautifully done with a bonus blow up of a real locomotive, while you also notice the plenty of early 21st century SFX with even a greater care and love of a hobbyist making a bunch of model airplanes. By watching this movie you will likely notice the proximity where Hollywood still miserably fails with its over-melodramatic and self-righteous choreographs in other mass-produced war movies you've seen way too many. I bet the director Jan Sverak will eventually become next Wolfgang Petersen or someone in that caliber. - You will find yourself rewarded. (PS: If you can stand only English-speaking movies then you may dismiss this one.)