MovieMama625

Enough said. But since I have to write a review, I will say this series is NOT in the league of Game of Thrones, which IS worthy of the high 9 rating. Sorry to say, but it's pretty much every cheesy 80's sci-fi B/Horror movie wrapped in one, with equally cheesy Goonie-ish actors. I gave it a slightly above average rating for the acting ability of the Eleven..the other kids constant, loud bickering and cliché teenage love/angst was getting unbearable by the 5th episode with no reprieve in the episodes that follow... Ryder & Modine did a decent enough job. The only thing which really irked me with Ryder was the awful shaggy haircut she had.

I love WW2 movies. I really like Colin Firth. I'm not entirely a huge fan of Kidman, but she's okay. ( not that I think she acts terrible, but always seems to just over do it, rather. Except in 'The Other's..' she was great in that...) I don't know what it is exactly, but for how terrible the suffering this young man was supposed to endure through his ordeal as a POW, it just almost came across a bit cheesy on this film. Like a Lifetime TV movie. Not that I enjoy watching blood , guts and gore, or the misfortune of others. It's just usually with this type of film, I feel a sense of misery, or anger, or foreboding or SOMETHING with the situation within the story. This film just didn't have that affect on me. I felt nothing, but a bit bored. Right from the beginning. For this type of story, I just felt it was executed poorly. The story itself is good and of course the acting is as good as one would expect from the choices. It just didn't have the WOW factors that make my heart race with trepidation or elation. It will not be a movie that will stick with me. I'm being nice and giving it a 6...

I'm not entirely sure how to rate this movie, because I can't decide if I liked it or not, so I just gave it a 5. On one hand, the cast was good. Atmosphere/setting was creepy. Attire & score was on point. Some "WTF" moments in the beginning that had you wanting to see what was to transpire..but...It just kind of left me feeling flat from the middle towards the end. The premise was good & it had so much potential to be great, but I left feeling 'meh...I just didn't see any solid, fluidity to the story and the ending came just when I thought it might start getting good...Basically, it just lacked a solid story. Instead there were a bunch of great beginnings, and that was that. The dialect I understand was spoken to the time period, but the way they spoke it, with accents and pace, made it somewhat difficult to understand and decipher at first. It was hard to keep up with what they were saying, which got to be annoying. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more had I found this movie on Netflix or Redbox, with subtitles & lower expectations. While it's not an awful movie, I don't see the 7.8 rating it had at the time I saw it. I give it a solid 5.