
“War Blade” is another one of those mediocre WII commando movies only this time two British soldiers teaming up with two French resistance members decide to invade a Nazi bunker where a lot of odd and terrible things are occurring and not solely to the prisoners that they are abusing in there.
Unfortunately, this B-level filmmaker Nicholas Winter, the writer-director of “Robin Hood The Rebellion” decides to make another bad period movie on an extremely low budget and presents this lifeless action film.
Even today, one does not require many films like that of Speilberg to produce a Second World War movie. All that one needs is to begin with more understanding of the events and context of war than what the people who created and directed ‘Battle for Saipan’ understood. Furthermore, it is quite important to actually have an understanding of what kind of war story one is going to direct like people who created ‘Ghosts of War’ did.
Milsom plays Banks, a commando sent to examine a partisan bunker where a partisan risked his life to have his German nurse Alina Tamara smuggled to his partisan cell leader’s wife Rebecca Scott.
Banks describes his `liability’ as a somewhat hallucinated, deaf blast shill, Paul Marlon (who is rather good), and some orders to find Ivy, the cell chief who he befriended prior to the war, who was first married off to a Frenchman.
According to Alan’s report, the German nurse in question with a recurrent and variable accent was able to break free, and this is what retelling happened seems to be highly gobbled. But Banks has specific orders given to him.
The battles are poorly organized, and at times it seems that stage punches are delivered after a fist has already hit the body part that was meant to be struck. Obviously, involving a DEAF man sounds like an ineffective approach to gunfire scenarios.
There is no need to demonstrate the drop of a parachute, display only the aftermath, commandos regrouping to retrieve their equipment and being met by partisans. Similarly, the era’s aircraft doesn’t need to be depicted. It is possible to use only sound effects. It is wonderful to witness how a real American reconnaissance airplane comes on the stage towards the end, it is a wonder for us and for Winter to see it finally and apparently expect it.
What you need is one almost perfect command car they seem to rationalize that they got the aging owner to drive it as well (not altogether inaccurate as everybody wanted to ‘do their bit’ in the land of keep calm and carry on.
A few WWII rifles or submachine guns and a believable imitation of the Wehrmacht and SS uniforms will cover a multitude of liabilities, but not quite that of the commanding Nazi’s 80s Anglo Pop bank haircut.
But this will not please fans of the action and war movies. “War Blade” is interesting only for filmmakers with big concepts and small budgets or for film schools where it could be used as a demonstration of what you are able to achieve on a low budget, a cookie-cutter script, and in an environment devoid of a single person capable of blocking, staging, photographing a sequence and editing it.
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