To me, this movie is perfection.

Thanks for the memories!

Overrated

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Again one of those many reenactment clubs trying to make a movie. They have the correct historical material, vehicles and uniforms but nobody with acting, screenwriting and director cappabilities. Also a lack of historical research. SS officers with a beard? Officers with a blanck neck patch without signs. Leibstandarte division together with Das Reich in Normandy at the moment of the landing? Landing of the allies without previous artillery firing of the beaches?? Worst of all are the sound effects they used which is a war sound track coming from a soundeffect LP disc. All those things make it a shame of what they could achieve if they used they resources better with a good director managing this. Maybe good to show in a museum but that's it. Lucky to see it free of charge on youtube otherwise it was a waste of money on DVD or BD.

Other reviewers do have some valid points on the movie - the acting is not the greatest and at times you can see the low-budget effects but this has been GREATLY overstated.The script is good and, most of the time, the direction is passable albeit that sometimes the acting is wooden (and I did say "sometimes"). A great plus for me is that there is a serious attempt, thanks to the large number of re-enactors involved, to use accurate uniforms, weapons and equipment (btw the bright red lipstick shown was very fashionable in the 1940s) and there is some real feel of combat in a way that there is not with a great many other war movies ('The Longest day' and 'Saving Private Ryan' being particular exceptions).'The Rose of Normandy' will never be a classic and could have been better edited to reduce the times when you can see the low budget effects (we didn't need to see the totally empty sea behind the landing craft...) but the "Worst WWII Movie Ever" ? NOT by a very very long way.Have the other reviewers not seen 'The Battle of the Bulge', 'To Hell and Back', 'The Heroes of Telemark', 'The Big Red One', 'Operation Crossbow', and all of those other movies where the Producer/Director has not even tried to reflect 1940s uniforms, equipment and fashion because they really couldn't be bothered and may well have had a simple contempt for their audiences ? No, as I said, "Normandy" is not a great movie but is well worth the hour and a half indulgence

First, looking at the 5 or 6 rave reviews, I'd have to guess that producer/director/star is up to his Amazon tricks of giving great reviews of his own product. Next, all the people who gave this piece of scheiss 2 or less stars were right on. One thing I must mention is that Struckmann needs to take a firearms safety course......the way he fires a pistol reminds me of nothing so much as Natalie Portman in 'Leon: The Professional', just hold the weapon up and start blasting. If this guy really "served 10 years in the ARMY and finished his Military service as an instructor in Germany" (as IMDb puts it), I hope it wasn't the US Army.....

I rented this from a Redbox just before a winter storm. I had never heard of the film, but I expected to be snowed in and everything else was out of stock. The title has been shortened to just "Normandy" and the leading lady's name omitted from the credits. This isn't so much a movie, as an excuse for reenactors and military vehicle collectors to show off their hardware, and the hardware is fascinating. I can't imagine how one goes about maintaining 70 year old German tracked vehicles. Normandy also has lame dialog, wooden actors, anachronistic mini-skirts and chubby soldiers. If you can get past all of that, and Claudia Crawford's freakish lips, it is actually rather entertaining. If you are interested in old military hardware, this movie is well worth $1.27