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BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

dejna22 This movie was a full blown surprise to me. I wish I heard about it 4 years ago when it came out. I will never understand how shallow and cartoonish movies get all the hype and publicity and a jewel gets left behind on the road. Despite of being very subdued and atmospheric, this movie engages your full attention, 100% of the time. Things aren't explained in so many words, and that's what makes this movie so great. Actors are well picked and give a mesmerizing performance. Two main protagonists are absolutely superb in their roles. The pace of the scenes is just right, even if it's just a scene where a woman is leaning longingly onto her husband's shirt. Or a scene where an enemy soldier who occupied the village stares covetingly at a young woman and his superior asks him if he has sisters. That certainly changes his intentions. Only a complete fool would think this movie is a waste of time! If you need action, watch one of those run-of-the-mill action blockbuster movies and remain grazing peacefully in your comfort zone until the end. It's not a story that is passe for humans. Look at the world we live in. We're still struggling to understand how and why to be brave and selfless. The fool who's written the negative review that pops out first on the movie page, saying that it doesn't have a story reminds me of a child that doesn't understand anything unless you dumb it down to it's level- someone who lacks adult level imagination and capability of abstract thinking. This movie is full of small stories, left for the audience to conjure out of short flashbacks and characters behaviour in the present time. We don't have to know every detail to grasp the choices they are compelled to make, or understand the reasons for their actions. Michael Sheen might have had a short appearance here, but to me, made a point to this story. Our choices in difficult situations determine who we are. (It's true, the movie has a wee bit of a problem with sound, somehow. I had to rewind a couple of times to understand what the actors were saying and lower the volume button when the music suddenly attacked my ears but I completely forgive that, for the otherwise excellent movie experience.)

theredcomet This film is breathtaking and beautiful with gorgeous scenery, cinematography, acting, and story line. It is a film that DEEPLY touches the heart.Plot summary below:Resistance is not really a good title for this movie since it is not really about resistance. The premise is that the D-Day invasion has failed and that Nazi Germany is in the process of occupying Britain and the war will be over soon. A small group of German soldiers are sent on a mission to a secluded Welsh valley to look for a piece of medieval artwork reported to be there. This valley is extremely small with only a couple of farms on it. Meanwhile, all the husbands of the women there have disappeared. It never really explains what happened to them, but it can be surmised from the beginning of the film that they leave to participate in some guerrilla action and never make it back.One of the main characters of the movie is the German Captain Albrecht. He notifies the women of the valley that his men will be posted there for a couple of weeks. He tries at first to find out where all the men went, but soon abandons that pursuit. The main female character is farm wife Sarah, who feels extremely hurt and betrayed that her husband left in the middle of the night without saying anything (for her safety), but she also deeply misses him and is scared for both his safety and what this meas for her future. When the German soldiers show up this makes her feel even more alone and vulnerable. Sarah and the rest of the women of the valley band together for support because the women feel scared and alone without their husbands and at first they don't want to have anything to do with the German soldiers. But Albrecht and his men are, for the most part, kind and compassionate to the people of the valley and treat them with respect while searching for the lost artifact, which was hidden before the invasion. The woman tell the soldiers they cannot cooperate with the enemy and be collaborators and the soldiers respect their wishes.Soon the harsh winter comes and threatens the livelihoods of the women's farms and the soldiers catch food and start to offer help to the resistant women. When they help the women during a particularly bad storm, they start to come around and accept the help of the German soldiers around their farms who take on the tasks of their missing husbands. Meanwhile, Albrecht has found the lost artifact but hides the location from both his men and the high command so they can stay there longer. He suffers from PTSD due to his men being killed in the war and also from the death of his wife and child in a bombing raid. The peaceful seclusion of the valley offers him something he has been longing far since the beginning of the war and he will do anything to keep it that way by keeping both the German command out of the picture and by stopping any communication into and out of the valley - his reasoning being that they can wait out the rest of the war in the valley so no more of his men get killed. The acting by Albrecht's actor Tom Wlaschiha is phenomenal and you can really see the pain in his eyes and face and the struggles he goes through, but you can also see his strength as he takes care of his men and his kindness and compassion for the women. Albrecht develops a subtle relationship with Sarah who is missing her husband and who seems heavily depressed. Their relationship is probably the most interesting part of the film. The other women also develop different relationships with the soldiers as they work around the farm and care for them. The change in the women's attitude is also shown by the soldiers adopting the husbands' farming clothes.A young boy who never went to the front was instructed before the invasion on how to resist the enemy. He spies on the valley and soon finds a way to interrupt their idyllic lives. I won't give away the ending but the whole movie is very heart-wrenching and you really feel for both the women, the group of soldiers, and the angry boy who wants to do his part in fighting the enemy.This movie shows the horrors of war very honestly and really explores the nature of human beings and the feelings of love and loss during wartime.It is not an action movie, but more of a slow character drama. It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

davidmurray1917 DOES CONTAIN PLOT SPOILERSThe back story is this 'D-Day fails, Germany invades UK'. That's it, no other explanation, no other context. There is a serious issue as to whether of not The Third Reich had any intention to invade the UK even in 1940. There is a good argument that it did not. To suppose that it had such plans in 1944, when it was fighting a desperate and loosing struggle against the Soviet Union is ridiculous. To suppose that had the D-Day landings been repulsed Germany would then have switched to the offensive, by-passing the months of planning and logistical preparation that would have been required for a Channel crossing, is at the level of a kid's comic.But this, as it were macro-absurdity, is then echoed by a whole series of absurdities at every level of the plot (using that word loosely):1) The men of the village disappear, supposedly to fight the Germans, but we hear nothing of the.2) The German unit is tasked to find an ancient map, which, supposedly will be used by Himmler to validate his ideology. Er, how, and why? And how come the unit is of the Wehrmacht, not the SS?3) The map is 'hidden' in a cave and is found by the German commander on this first search. I mean, really !!4) We're told that the Germans are stranded in the valley over Winter, but what we see of the weather is nothing very special, even by Brit standards, and far less severe than the conditions on the Eastern Front which the German military would have been dealing with for 3 years !!5) For no good reason the Germans start to wear civvies, supposedly because their uniforms are 'wearing out'. This is just beyond silly, and anyway, didn't they have spares ?6) At one point a Welshman is caught by the German unit, supposedly having been 'interrogated by the Gestapo' - the only damage to him appears to be a bit of facial bruising, no more than could have been received in a barney down the boozer on a Saturday night. OK, this is supposed to be an 'alternate history' work, but a Gestapo whose interrogation goes no further than a few smacks to the face is just too alternate for credibility.The overall premise has possibilities. None of these are explored. This is a worthless movie, utterly devoid of serious ideas or any moral or political dimension.

stewarthugo If, as I was once told, war is 99% boredom then this film is an accurate representation of 99% of war. I persisted watching it because it I felt it might possibly have been one of the worst films I had ever seen. in the same category as Rocky 4, Meet the Spartans and Don't Mess with the Zohan. Indeed this film is in that class.The story is ridiculous in saying that the Germans could possibly have successfully invaded Britain in 1944, when they were being inexorably pushed back on the eastern front and in other theatres. The story was non existent, the acting wooden with overlong pauses in the dialogue.It was a massive waste of a couple of hours, boring and without merit whatsoever.