Touches You

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Warming may contain spoilers! It was well known that SOE quite often lifted men that had particular gifts such as safe cracking out of prison and into their organisation. However for a soldier who is in military prison to hold a gun on a commando officer and force him to drive out of the gate is frankly ridiculous. Considering both the stance and weapon handling of Dyer leave a lot to be desired and he would have been very easily disarmed by the officer and sent promptly back to prison. However with lots of shouting and passion Dyer convinces the officer he can be a commando, another flight into fantasy. Dyer is apparently a man who saw combat before, goes through commando training and gets into fire fights. Then when all is lost he freezes, staring into space a complete zombie. I can appreciate that Danny was trying to emulate the thoughts that may enter a soldiers head, but the character development was deeply flawed and erratic. This film is apparently based on a true story, well the training part may be as to the birth of the commandos. However, in 1940 a note had been written by Winston Churchill to the War Office, saying that 5000 Parachute troops were required after Germany's success in using Airborne elements, some of these were drawn from commando units. The raid described in this film is really the raid carried out by C Company the 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, led my Major John Frost. Operation Biting was an attack on the radar station in Bruneval Northern France. A commando raid had been considered but found to be unacceptable due to the strong coastal defences, so the company with one RAF flight sergeant were parachuted in. The operation was a complete success. So in essence this film has conjoined the commandos with the Parachute Regiment, which is never a good thing to do. As for the film after the beginning I never fully recovered. Should this director or film company ever make a similar film again, let me just say this, good props but, please get proper technical advice, too many tactical errors, more on par with a cowboys and Indian film. As for the ending, it is a mistake to start with so many threads to a story-line and then not inform the viewer how they end. The film itself ended up somewhat as a mystery. My favourite character> The Scottish senior NCO, an excellent portrayal of a tough SNCO, much like some that I knew during my service with C Company 2 Para.

This looked like it could be a very entertaining watch for several reasons : 1.I am a sucker for WWII films. 2.Seeing if Danny Dyer could not act like a coke-fuelled cockney geezer 3.The Bloke (Aksel Hennie) from the blisteringly good Max Manus Man of War (2008) It was good because : 1.It pulled no punches when the SS troops executed a family - unlike Inglorious Basterds 2. Supporting cast held the film together 3.It passed the time It was not good because : 1.Venacular and rhythm of dialogue more suited to youtube generation than WWII dialogue 2.Costumes so poorly made, I wondered if the seamstress only had double-sided tape to finish the collars, and bedsheets for the alpine SS uniforms ? 3.Weapons looked incorrect, but I'm not enough of a WWII buff to dispute this 4.Sean Bean appeared to have had 'work done' before this film - his eyes look post-surgery stretched and puffy all at once 5.Danny Dyer only just managed not to say the C word and sounded too modern-day cockney for the time 6.Danny Dyers teeth were too white 7.Jensen, the female character had a full face of make-up in the barn scene - totally unrealistic 8.The vehicles were clearly leased from a movie props company, with crappy old tyres just about driveable 9. Special effects out of the late 1970's 10. You cannot walk hundreds of miles to Sweden in the snow with no food or skis 11. More wooden than Keanu Reeves / Kristen Stewart

Oh dear, where to start. It is an average world war II action flick. Nothing spectacular but fair enough to kill a couple of hours. Better than a lot of TV so that is something. As someone that served in the regiment so much is so wrong. Ian Flemming had nowt to do with it. But if the movie authors and studio wish to believe that than they are free to do so no matter how inaccurate. It was actually the actions of David Stirling and his mob that started the true British Special Forces, who incidentally was also the founder of the SAS. And that is that.silly 10 line limit, the movie isn't worth that.

In the fall of 2010, I spent a short time on the set of an independent film called "The Boarder," which was being shot in rural Nebraska. And one thing that I did learn while mingling amongst the technicians and actors was that even in something as aesthetically-driven as a motion picture, and with something passionate as a subject matter, it is still entirely possible for things to sour up and become impersonal. Movie-making is not easy, and the stress, I'm afraid, can wear out the artistic drive in some of us, especially if it's an early endeavor. That very well may have been the case, I'm afraid to say, with Adrian Vitoria's "Age of Heroes."Again, it's hard to imagine a film based on a true story to be passionless and impersonal, but that is the case here. "Age of Heroes" is loosely based on a World War II British commando unit's mission to garner Germany intelligence. The particular mission was drawn up by Ian Fleming, who would later go on to write the James Bond novel series. So a story about men who risked and gave their lives, even in a shoestring budget film like this, is hard to imagine as soulless. But it is.The way this movie is filmed, acted, scored, and executed, it's as if the filmmakers simply pulled the story out of a box full of potential stories and decided to roll along with it. Because it was their job, not because they particularly wanted to. Filming the battle scenes in this movie must have been very difficult, and unfortunately, the stress the directors and technicians had on them is apparent. It can be felt, and as a result, the scenes, meant to be white-hot, have a sort of staged, phony feeling to them.There are worthy actors in the movie, headed by Sean Bean, but not one of them as a real part to act. What little personality they have is drawn straight out of previous war pictures. The key example is a tough commando sergeant, played with zest by William Houston; really just a pale imitation of the much-more-impressive gunnery sergeant from Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" back in 1987.If the film can be redeemed, it is in that it does not appear to aim particularly high. It doesn't have a big goal, so it doesn't accomplish much, and the failure isn't quite as compounding as it otherwise might have been. And a brisk 94 minutes, "Age of Heroes" was already over by the time I was really starting to grow bored.