Brilliant and touching

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I love history .I love war movies This is simply boring to watch Dull movie

I don't know what it is about Brits and their films, but they seem to make better intimate period pieces than us Yanks. Save for the Western (our trademark) historic purview has mostly gone to the U.K. film industry.I saw this film just as I was starting my film career many a year ago. I liked what I saw, and was impressed with both scale and artistry of the production itself. Good choice of lenses and angles, the camera is mostly static and at a certain distance to give us a standing person's POV as we see bombs fall, kids frolic (sometimes dangerously), lovers embrace, families rejoice, and the occasional Spitfire gun down the stray Messerschmidt. Art direction is superb, as is the lighting. All technical points pass muster and then some. I can't think of a single misstep in production.An excellent young boy's memoir on the second World War. Enjoy.

Yes, I can understand many people like this movie because everybody sees this movie through a different point of view. But ( to me ) , this movie is not that wonderful or artistic. I can understand that when we see this movie we rewind time. And there isn't any really end, we only follow an English family day after day ... The only positive point of the movie is the characters ; a mad Grandpa and a sexually liberated sister.We can see the characters feel happy and Second World War like a big game for them ( nobody dies, ... ).There is only one funny scene, when Billy says "F*** ! " and when the little gang come to help him.Overall, we can say this movie can be seen if you love history or if you have "absolutely nothing " to do in the afternoon. But isn't worth sacrificing one day to go to the cinema to see it. I give it a bad mark...

There is something so distinctly British about the Home Front during World War II. Perhaps it was the movies that portrayed the typically 'stiff upper-lipped' Brits holding their heads high and getting on with their everyday lives, not letting the fact that the country was being destroyed by German bombs get them down. And so came John Boorman's semi-autobiographical account of a child growing up during the Blitz, trying to capture that old-school spirit, and giving a fresh perspective from a particularly naive child's point of view.The film follows the Rowan family whose youngest child Bill (Sebastian Rice-Edwards) finds the frequent air raids and destruction as exciting as it is terrifying. His sister Dawn (Sammi Davis) falls for a Canadian solider who is soon called back into action. His father Clive (David Hayman) volunteers for the army and heads off to fight until he's deemed too old and supports the war effort from an administrative angle. And struggling to hold the whole family together is the mother Grace (Sarah Miles), who in her loneliness seeks out the comfort of Clive's best friend who she had feelings for back before she got together with Clive.Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, I was expecting a definitive account of Britain during WWII. What I witnessed was a badly acted, amateurish and poorly scripted film that I found reminiscent of an ITV drama with a slightly bigger budget that normal. I was genuinely surprised, as I'd heard nothing but good things about it. It felt that one scene led to the next without any control or idea of where it was heading. The relationship between Dawn and the Canadian soldier is every bit as predictable and tedious as you would expect, and I failed believe any of it. The third act of the film moves the action to the granddad's countryside home, and meanders there for a long time without much happening at all.The film is also guilty of some truly terrible acting. Decent child actors are always hard to find, but Rice-Edwards doesn't even remotely convince as an actor. He delivers his lines with a rigid blankness and is not able to channel his character's emotions through to the audience. And the late Ian Bannen playing Grandfather George suffers from a bad script and bad direction. He is meant to be the lovably grouchy old man, but stomping around muttering inaudible grumblings over and over and over again is neither funny or convincing.I'll stop the moaning there I think, because there were things I also liked about the film, it's just that the negatives irritated me so much that they overshadowed the positives. A stray weather balloon causing havoc amongst the rooftops whilst the family watch with glee, and the Canadian solider pulling faces through the family window while they stand straight-faced listening to 'God Save The Queen' are a couple of the rather wonderful and funny moments of the film. And the forbidden and potential love affair between Grace and her husband's best friend seen through the eyes of a maturing Bill is cleverly explored only in glimpses.Overall an okay movie, which I will no doubt watch again in a few years to see if I've just missed something, giving the overwhelmingly positive critical response the film received. But for now I'll stick to my guns.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com