WarHunt

Starts out good. Devolved quickly into a shambled mess. It gets pretty hard to follow this film as the plot pace rushes into overdrive. Could have been a good one. Wasted opportunity.

Firstly the filming is good, acting ok but it falls badly between being a war film and ghost story.

Its an ok watch but the lack of suspense, scares or anything resembling a plot beyond going to look for a thing, finding it in half an hour or so then a fairly dull half hour not getting back lets it all down.

I was enjoying this movie for a while. It's a cool premise that could have been awesome if executed better. It's visually pleasing (when you can see). But...

This is a low quality movie. The story is a mess. The action scenes are a mess. Especially when the scenes are unbelievably dark. At times 95% of the screen is black. I couldn't see anything. I had no idea what was happening in the climax. I was fully focused on the movie and could not decipher who was who or what they were doing. Did they not preview the movie? (1 viewing, 3/5/2022)

It looks like the majority of the budget for this movie went into the costuming and equipment and to fund Mickey Rourke's plastic surgery.

The plot, casting, acting, editing, and special effects are all reminiscent of straight to VHS/DVD/TV "F" tier movies.

If you have an appreciation for the occult and alt fiction world war 2 media and are scraping the bottom of the barrel for any content at all it's still not advisable to view this movie.

Overall, not a bad little Weird War 2 film, in the same genre as The Bunker, Frankenstein's Army, Ghost of War, Blood Vessel, The Devil's Rock, etc. This one held much promise, but fell down in certain key areas: Most notably, the runtime was too short for the ideas it presented. A slow buildup of the twists and turns and who knew what, would have set the pacing and tone of the film better. The actors (Mickey Rourke aside, he was a bad casting choice here) did their best with what they had, but the film needed to flesh them out more, to give a better sense of their actions and so forth.

The special effects/location work was very well done for a modest film such as this, but there were a few scenes that needed better lighting so we could see what the characters were doing.

Unlike the aforementioned Blood Vessel the characters here were likable and it would have been nice to know just a bit more about them as the movie progressed.

6/10, a nice little surprise for those into Weird War films.