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Like fast food...

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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You enjoy it as you're watching it, but then realize it was less satisfying than you thought it would be.

It has a few moments but mostly it under performs.

i. The 'monsters' and gore weren't that imaginative. Evil Nazi villain looked no more terrifying than Two-Face. Bald one-armed zombie guy was less scary than the sprinting one-armed zombie guy in Snyder's Day of the Dead.

ii. The acting is all over the map. I guess part of the problem was the cliche characters... the actors didn't really have a lot to work with. Funnily, I thought the best actor was the young kid... the scene where he is caught in the crossfire had me thinking he was genuinely terrified.

iii. Not sure to what extent CGI was used to re-create the village. The early scenes that take place at night at they are approaching the village looked weird on my HDTV.... like it was a giant set. Took me out of the movie.

iv. Over on IMDB someone mentioned Inglourious Bastards when talking about this movie. Tarantino's film was also a total WWII fantasy but benefited from intriguing characters and great dialogue during some tension-filled scenes. I think THIS movie needed more of the spirit of THAT movie.

[–] brux (14802) 5 years ago

That is it will rot your brain out and turn it to mush ... thanks to JJ Abrams.

[–] JohnMatrix (726) 5 years ago

Agree on all your points there. This movie was a total disgrace. The script was just plain awful. There was nothing new or interesting that we haven’t seen before. Characters were just bland. Wolfenstein games have even better stories and characters than this dreck. At first I thought that this is what they were trying to emulate and go with on some level, but they didn’t. All they got in this movie somewhat decent production values. The look of the film was right, but everything else is wrong.

[–] Bloodworth79 (5718) 5 years ago

I enjoyed the atmosphere and graphics..but it was aliitle too millenial

[–] mel2000 (259) 10 months ago

* Movie couldn't decide whether it was a war mission movie or a horror movie. Failed at horror.
* Often lacked a sense of showing where soldiers were located during their mission. Too many "nick-of-time" saves with heroes showing up silently from nowhere.
* Didn't like the "hero" whose disobedience to command (and mission) caused most of their problems in the movie.
* Didn't like the badass farm girl who seemed better trained with weaponry and fighting than the soldiers.
* Child was used mostly to cause trouble for the soldiers' mission.

[–] DoctorThirteen (14646) 10 months ago

I enjoyed this when it came out. I watched it and thought 'I'll definitely watch that again'. I'm not sure I ever have.