War Gamers

The underlying story presented is really interesting, fascinating in fact, and it was refreshing to find a TV programme cover this subject matter.

However, the dramatizations are truly awful. The casting is so poor, most of the main cast are not believable in their roles: the Royal Navy senior officers are ridiculous cliches of angry martinets, while the captains of the escort ships are really unbelievable as people in a position of authority, but especially as Royal Navy captains of the Second World War. And the bloke playing Dönitz was laughable: he was like a little child playing a board game moving his oversized toy subs around a tiny map of the North Atlantic. Whoever was in charge of casting was either poor at the job or hamstrung by a small budget. The dialogue is terrible, unbelievable, third rate at best.

The chap who played Capt. Roberts however was good though, although I recognise his from a few tv productions, so perhaps most the budget went on his fee.