Mosquito Squadron
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Movie Reviews of Mosquito Squadron
Movie Review: Terrible movie
Summary: 2 Stars
Being a huge fan of the De Havilland Mosquito, when I saw this on Netflix, I immediately ordered it. I mean, Mossies, and Ilya Kuryakin(David McCallum)? Gotta do it.
One of the opening scenes portrayed "London", but as a V-1 Doodle Bug flying bomb nears the end of its flight, there's a nuclear cooling tower....and the movie didn't improve. Surprisingly, the romance aspect of the film was one of the highlights....not a good sign. At least the makers of this film had the sense to borrow copious footage from the far superior "633 Squadron".
By the way, when in England, be sure to visit the De Havilland Museum at Lincoln Colney, just outside St. Albans, Herts. It's well worth the visit.
Movie Review: Patched together mess
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a scrapbook movie - a little taken from "Operation Crossbow", and parts of the rest from a better film about Mosquito bombers called "633 Squadron" and David McCallum's "Beatle" haircut is absurd.Movie Review: Disappointing 70s world war 2 flick.
Summary: 2 Stars
Bad special effects as far as the model work goes. Stupid love story that you have to fast forward through. 60s hairdos on what are supposed to be 1940s women. It's just low budget and lame.Movie Review: This is a major skip
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie was recommended to me on the basis of the special effects with the Mosquito bombers. Don't believe it. The special effects are generally poor to mediocre. Their only saving grace is that the movie itself is so awful that they gain a modicum of respectability by comparison.Where to begin. The only response I have to much of this film is helpless laughter. As one example, the Germans drop a film canister at the hero's air base. Under normal circumstances, such a thing would be immediately scooped up by British intelligence and whisked off for review. But we are instead expected to believe that it is immediately screened right there, with the squadron leader and the grieving widow's brother (don't ask!) in attendance.
Other details, such as the grieving widow who is permitted to go into the ex-squadron leader's office (and dayroom) to collect his personal effects - apparently she has pretty much free run of the air base. Her pain lasts approximately until she runs into David McCallum there (the replacement squadron leader, who also happens to be the ex-squadron leader's pseudo-brother). An interminable scene of the two of them riding bicycles in the park, but lacking the Burt Bachrach score. Then we have the hero and the grieving widow talking in a convertible while driving around the countryside - no wind noise and their hair does not move! It does not move! And she has BIG hair.
There is one interesting point. I don't know whether or not George Lucas actually saw this film, but the bombing runs over the Nazi chateau and the nature of the target itself seem to strongly prefigure the equivalent bombing runs over the Death Star in Star Wars IV. If so, it would be the only positive effect this movie has produced.
As for the acting, understand that we are not talking Olivier here. David McCallum reprises the emotive range he demonstrated as The Man From UNCLE, and the rest of the cast seems intent on living down to his example.
There are many good WWII aviation movies set in the European theater - ...
Movie Review: So this is how we stopped the Nazis
Summary: 1 Stars
A pitiful extended bore...how many times do you have to see the intrepid pilots fly up the fjord practice run to get the picture. This one ought to be coupled with "The revenge of the Killer Tomatoes"....save your dough from this turkey!