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When a film starts with a young actress walking in a flimsy top with a very loose bra, you just gotta think, ffs, here we go, I know where this movie is going and it's exactly where it went, it was just pervy and made me feel very uncomfortable. The camera was actively leering at this young woman right through the movie.

Ms Sweeney is a very attractive young woman but her agent needs to be fired if THIS is the dross they're putting in front of her. As a bloke, and a dad Of 2 daughters, I genuinely cringe at the way this young woman is portrayed here. It's just SO cynical and misogynistic. I suspect this actress is much much better than this level of crap. There's also another actress in here who was reduced to showing her boobs and prancing around in her underwear for no plot reason other than to have a naked women on screen. Did I mention cynical?

This is a film with no 'real' people in the characters. All buffed up, uber cool/smug, self centered and sorting out their overprivileged lives.

It's just a REALLY bad movie.

While there are significant production values on show and presumably a huge budget for CGI, this show just didn't connect with me.

Some of the flying situations are really good, and gives a sense of the abject horror those young men must have experienced. However all momentum was lost when the action returned to the Earth.

It introduced a lot of characters very quickly, killed a lot of them quickly, and tbh, a lot of the actors looked very alike and for a couple of episodes I couldn't tell who was who! (But that's a me problem :) ) Simply can't be compared to Band of Brothers, just not anywhere in the same league.

Maybe it was just me too but the spoken dialogue was often impenetrable to make out what was being said. You have to turn the volume up, and then minutes later the action is in the air and you have to turn the sound down again so that your ears aren't suffering.

A missed opportunity, felt rushed, but action sequences in the air were really good.

Had read some of the poor reviews (The Guardian in particular) but they miss the point.

This IS a leave your brain at the door and just go with the flow movie. Some of the CGi (compared to what we've become accustomed to) is a wee bit hokey at times but it doesn't distract from the action.

FWIW I want to address some of the comments I read about Bryce Dallas Howard? There are mysogynistic a** holes everywhere you look these days. She's a very lovely woman, sexy as heck, but forget all the comparative nonsense you may read elsewhere, the important thing is she's really good in this, movie and adds another string to her acting bow.

Sam Rockwell doesn't disappoint, is there a more watchable actor alive? Maybe, but he's having a lot of fun here. They all are!

It's a very watchable, has the distinctive Mathew Vaughan visuals, and is not as ultra violent as The Kingsman movies.

Leave your brain at the door....enjoy.