A lot of fun.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

What's the matter with war movies of late? All of them seem to be emphazing the "human element" over that of strategy, in an attempt to say "look at how war is bad" and then cash on it anyway.This one joins the bandwagon. I starts well enough, with a fast prelude and great bombardment scenes (the sound aspect is well done), notably with a superb CGI rendering of Schleswig-Holstein, the old battleship that fired the first shot of WWII. If it continued that way that would have been a fine movie indeed.But then it gets lost in the details, and slowly, gradually, comes to ignore all strategical aspects to concentrate on the opposition of officers and contemplation of the soldiers' sordid stuff that made their days. Screen time is lost to insignificant episodes (like the hallucinating parts) while the spectator is held in ignorance of everything tactical. We don't even heard about the USSR also invading Poland at the same time.Otherwise, pictures are beautiful, the sets and costumes are superb, the actors are okay and the music is fine.

Although there are many complaints about this movie it shows the drama and deceit of Poland by France and England who did not come to help. It shows that when you face surrender or fighting to the last man the choice is not easy. Even though there are no major scenes of battle it shows the drama of fighting without external help with lack of medical supplies and it shows that in the tragedy of the situation the soldiers did the best they could. God bless those men who died for POLAND. God bless their souls. Germany. We WILL NEVER forget!!! We will never forget what communists did to WW2 heroes after the war when too many of them had no pension and means to survive. Modern globalist propaganda is equally bad as German and Soviet one. Do not confuse patriotism and honor with being against other countries. Protect your countries and love them.

I don't blame foreigners if they can't see the controversy behind this movie but to read a Pole's review with such little understanding ...shocking. The original title of this film in Polish reads "The secret of Westerplatte". And that is what matters here. Westerplatte became a legend of Polish resistance,national symbol of heroism and sacrifice. Generations were brought up with this myth of Poland's Thermopylae. Historical truth though was much prosaic and this movie is more like a documentary which tries to give the honest account of events and raise some important questions about the sens of sending people to unnecessary death and suffering. For God's sake - this is what this film is about. And yes, soldiers of Westeplatte and in all other places like it, were dying in horror, behaving often in completely nonsensical, cowardly way, losing they cool, senses, dignity. This is a true picture of war. Poland lost 6 million people in it, mostly due to so much resistance we put up. Was it worth anything? That is what this film is about. Don't expect a B class war movie. It ain't.

The movie is boring. Many well known actors doesn't help at all. They can't express action and fight of WWII. Action is chaotic. Soldiers most of the time have trouble with rifles almost like they use it first time in their life. German soldiers attack from 20 meters and they do not see polish soldiers? What do they think? Special effect are very bad and you can see they are low budget. Movie is missing camera shots from distance and panorama views of Westerplatte. Dialogs are primitive. Behavior of soldiers is nonsense. No big scenes of fight, just few people with guns. It's one of the worst movies I've seen. All this movie can be cut to 15 minutes and still will be boring. It's bad not only comparing to world standard, but also compared to other polish productions. Do not watch it.