World on Fire

This is for people who want to know about confusion and pain, not the shoot them up pastiche of war that is typical. It's sibjective approach means it has nine of the grand narative, but that's exactly right for the humane film it is

1/10.... reallly? Poor acting... really?

You are on this forum, as am I, for ONE reason - to convey the cinematic qualities of what we have before us. This is NOT a historical debate forum. I'm glad we got that out of the way....

World on Fire delivers. It doesn't deliver historical accuracy - but it delivers "the sense of the moment" and it does so pretty damn well.

This is a half full glas and it's contents are pretty tasty. Any review below 6/10 cannot be taken seriously.

Enjoy.

Good premise spoiled by soap opera level plotting and wildly implausible plot contrivances and character motivations.

Acting is wildly uneven - Sean Bean is great as always, as is the Polish girl but the fella playing Harry is absolutely hopeless.

Almost injured myself eye-rolling when a character apparently walks from Poland to Dunkirk.

Disappointing

Nice to see the polish side of the story and how horrifying it all was. Glad the bbc used well known polish actors rather than British actors with accents. Lends an authenticity to proceedings. Well acted throughout and great to see heavyweights like Helen hunt and Sean bean and Lesley Manville in tv

I thoroughly enjoyed the first episode and am already feel empathy towards some of the characters and look forward to seeing how their lives pan out. I particularly liked that you can see the human drama play out against the backdrop of war and not vice versa. Hope it stays this way and l shall look forward to Sunday nights.