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- The Age Of Heroes
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- In 1940, Major Jones is assigned to assemble an 8-men commando team to travel to Norway with specialist Roger Rollright to meet the agent Beowulf and destroy the German Freyo Station and steal German state-of-the-art technology of Radio Direction Finding (RDF) in Operation Grendel. Jones travels to the Dashwood Military Prison to bring the soldier Brightling and he brings also the insubordinate Corporal Bob Rains; then the commando team heads to Scotland to be trained. When they fly to Norway, they are discovered and the plane crashes. Six members of the military unit and the specialist survive to the attack. After the assignment, the naval pickup is not possible and the survivors without supply and little ammunition need to walk to Sweden in a dangerous journey through a land occupied by German forces.
- The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.
- I would liken it to a small but well-formed Heroes of Telemark and if you liked that you should like this.<br/><br/>Sean Bean and Danny Dyer are excellent, and I enjoyed the introduction of Isabella Miko. Other casting was adequate (although I would have preferred someone like Susannah York - ex Battle of Britain - for the role of Holbrook) I have a hunch that the negative reviews of this film may be from a non-UK audience; one that is not comfortable with ordinary heroes, realistic language (the F-word), and the audience being left to complete elements of the story. The ending is sufficient, and the suspense well-maintained throughout, with plenty of action - some a little more unpleasant that you might want in a 15 - but that is the nature of war. Nothing gratuitous, but nothing patronisingly anodyne.<br/><br/>I have watched a lot of war films over the last 50 years and this is definitely one of the better ones.
- Why? That's what I want to know. Why does a talent like Bean sign up to a piece of half baked tripe like this? Why make yet another formulaic war film the likes we've seen a hundred times before? Why did I sit through this thing to the very, very disappointing end? Why,why,why? These are some of the questions that you can ask yourself If you sit down to watch "Age of Heroes" but I don't recommend it. The story is the standard: a bunch of "Heroes" are dropped into enemy territory, Steal/destroy something and get out again, the end. That's OK I suppose but it's just so underdeveloped in both story line and the characters that by the end you're left scratching your head thinking WTF. The only fun you'll have is laughing at the many clichés that riddle the movie. Ever seen a hard arsed sergeant major type whose really a great guy underneath? What about an unlikely hero whose doubted at first but eventually shows his true metal? You might also be familiar with the one dimensional psychopathic German soldier, smiling as he shoots civilian prisoners? And believe me there are many, many more. And then there's the ending. This is how I imagine the ending of this film was formulated: <br/><br/>Producer: "What're we gonna do we've run out of money and we haven't finished the film yet?"<br/><br/>Director: "Mmmmm, no problem we just say instead of a boat picking them up they have to walk to Sweden. They can walk around on a snowy hill for a while, stop and point into the distance and say 'that's Sweden', the end."<br/><br/>Producer: "Brilliant!"<br/><br/>A very poor end to a very poor film yes, but at least it's over and you can get on with your life. And as for Mr Bean, read the bloody script before you say yes, surely you can't need the money that badly.
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