Spitfire Over Berlin

The entire movie consists of headshots of pilots in phony aircraft. I've seen better CGI on Saturday morning cartoons -- from the '60s! And calling the acting wooden is an insult to actual wood... Everything about this stinker is phony.

You have been warned.

The acting is not bad, and the story is so-so (predictable and not very deep, but that's okay for war movies), but the actual spitfire is embarrassing and almost made the movie unwatchable.

The opening sequence is the Spirtfire flying while avoiding flak, and the 100% CGI plane is horrendous, even worse than MS Flight Simulator. Same thing with the single flack burst that was copied and pasted numerous times.

I almost shut the movie off then, but decided to tough it out for a while, but every time you almost start to look past the terrible CGI, they through some other ridiculousness in your face. The actual plane used in land scenes is obviously a mock-up built with Phillips screws that weren't used on Spitfires, some even aren't painted, and every surface is brand new - showing zero use. Kind of like watching a jungle warfare movie where they've been trekking through a tropical jungle for weeks, but their faces are still clean, their T-Shirts still white, no one is sweating, and their uniforms are still clean with creases intact.

It's really hard to look past the poor attention to detail and get immersed into this movie, no matter how hard you try.

Apparently it was made on a tiny budget, oh it shows. It is definitely not a Hollywood blockbuster, don't expect too much of it.

Yes, there probably are many stories to tell to honor the pilots flying in WW2, but this, well, it is just plain boring, there is no content. The CGI clearly visible after the first couple of seconds turned me off immediately. Would better CGI and a wellknown actor have made it better? No, because there wasn't any content or story.

It's more like a high school project than a movie. No reason to go on but I need 150 words. The audio isn't mixed right so it doesn't match. Special effects would have been better off using a model airplane on a string. Music rarely matches what's going on. Plot has many problems "you're the only pilot left for this mission!" My first ever review and I'm just trying to save another innocent person from this fake rating.

I am the co writer and co producer of this work and I am proud of it, despite its flaws.

My son, Callum, and I have worked very hard to build a business that produces low budget entertainment. We work from our family home in a spare room and don't earn a great deal from it, but we love film and we love working together and that's enough for us.

Reading some of the reviews on here is hard to say the least. However, we're strong enough to take it.

We didn't set out to make a flawed film. We set out to make the best film we could. The tiny budget, our lack of experience (we continue to learn and try to improve) and time restrictions did the rest.

My first reaction to reading some of the reviews on here was to get angry and hit back with a ten out of ten review of my own. Upon reflection, I don't need to do that. I know how hard the tiny cast and crew worked on Spitfire Over Berlin. Many of them are my family and close friends and I love them.

That's all that matters at the end of the day.