Steineded How sad is this?

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Gerda Klar I have never seen any movie makers on such a small budget tackle both the eastern front and D-day, This film should be remade on a studio budget it is pretty awesome in its scope. The negative reviews really need to take this in to account, They did something nobody have ever before done. And the film is full of historic notes worth seeing for the details and number of guns and real tanks. A few points should probably have been done different but I get it and I got it. the lead Tino Struckmann did a great acting job holding it together, the lead lady can act but seem a little to modern for this film, some great supporting roles I hope Hollywood take note of the talent here.

EdeBorrett 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

cosmo-bongo I thought this was a poor parody or a dreadful comedy about the Third Reich, having just stumbled on it on TV. It purports to be a serious motion picture, however. Oh Dear! The acting is less than 3rd-rate, the script a joke. Even the uniforms do not fit too well. One of the "actresses" who is a Nazi nurse wears a skirt several inches above her knees and apparently has just received uber-excessive lip- plumping, for she cannot close her mouth properly, looks like a fish gulping; her face is like a mask, almost frightening. There is some kind of plot or storyline, but I could not detect it, and I could not bear the thought of watching this cinematic dross through to its conclusion. There is a romance involved, and I suppose the Nazis end up losing the war, as usual. Truly, this is one of the weirdest films I have ever encountered. It will very quickly be forgotten, though, and I advise you NOT to bother with it at all.In a word: "abysmal".

Alex Heaton (azanti0029) I picked this up recently in the UK, where it has been released under the title 'Battle Over Normandy'. I really wish I hadn't. I brought another film very similar to this recently called 'Rhineland' and while this isn't quite as bad as that, its not far off. Before anyone accuses me of having a dig or personal attacks - I have no problem with low budget movies of this type, and thought the recent Saints and Soldiers 2 was a very good effort in the latter regard. Secondly I know how difficult making something like this can be, especially if you decide to take on so many jobs as Tino Struckman appears to have done here, but then you must also take the blame for the failings and unfortunately there are plenty. The plot, such as there is, see's a German Soldier (Played by Tino) return from the Russian Front to be posted in Normandy where he ends up near his love Klaudia (Claudia Crawford)who works as a nurse. The Allies invade, there are some fall outs out with the Gestapo and people are imprisoned and breakout, there is a battle and people die. What the production had going for it was the obvious involvement of a huge number of WW2 rein-actors and their resources with a whole plethora of tanks and vehicles on display, and while these are put to good use, this effectively turns the film into a re-enactment video. The score for the film is so loud in places you cannot hear the dialogue, and the two leads in the film lack any real dimension or background that makes their relationship seem real, despite the brief presence of the girls father.The film does have a couple of things going for it - The scenes in Russia were quite nice, and some attempt has been made, at least in a few shots to make this look like it wasn't shot in America but a few simple things, such as old style European Road signs, could have made a lot of difference in firmly placing this elsewhere. While yes there is attention, where possible to historical accuracy, there's a lot of problems with it too. Its not just the lack of boats in the Normandy scenes, but the constant mix of units and uniforms, with SS wandering in and out all over the place with other units. Sure that did happen, but here its really distracting. You have the same vehicles turning up in different scenes set in different places, where scrim over the ID numbers painted on the side would have sold that problem. To be honest these are minor niggles which probably bothered other people more than they did me. The main gripe I have is the script, dialogue and characterisation. Case in point being, that there isn't any. The script is basic at best and serves no real purpose it seems than to get the leading man a kiss with the leading lady. Supporting characters are given no chance to breathe or screen time, so there is no sense of presence of any other actor on screen at any time, apart from the leading lady who you cannot miss with her bright red lipstick and non regulation very short nurses uniform. Mr Struckmann, does not look or sound German in anyones' imagination, and you have actors here all doing different style accents with the odd German word thrown in for good measure, but no one actually attempts a German accent and when a letter is read out in a voice-over to a German Soldier its done in a posh British accent. Some of the cast playing German officers make a good stab at their scenes but the continuity in their scenes is terrible. There also seems little point giving the American soldiers actual dialogue as their characters are not key to what little story there is beyond being the opposing force. Some of them speak and we see their interaction - Why I have no idea, probably because that was the deal with the re-inactment society, in which case okay, lets have a main American character in there too, and follow his story parallel to the Germans instead of these meaningless unmemorable faces that we have invested no emotion in and couldn't care who they are. If this is a German storyline, then focus on the actions of a German platoon and keep the Americans simply as the enemy, after all, whose perspective is this from? The German lead surely? It seems a wasteful shame that having gathered up the resources in hand, people didn't sit down and say 'Okay, what can we actually make this story about?' because what attempt there is at a script is woefully bad. The lines are just so awful, that they make an episode of Sunset Beach look like Oscar winning material. Getting a few decent actors from either a local drama group or even some on deferred payment would not have been impossible if there was a good script here. Sadly low flying scenes of American fighter Bombers are all but wasted in a battle where the stakes for us as an audience are really non existent and the ending instead of moving me, was just devoid of emotion, which at least made it on par with the performances of the two leads.