Wonderful character development!

Strictly average movie

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

I have without a doubt never ever seen a movie in which acting, filming, sound, screenplay and script are so completely worthless. It seems like re-enactment actors filmed each other with their mobile phones during a weekend away on a paintball range and then voiced it over, leaving the montage to a 10-year old. Explosions and shooting scenes seem to be edited in using windows moviemaker. All aircraft and vehicles are laughable. None of the actors should ever be allowed to star in anything but a STD-awareness commercial. Do you know Adult Swim's Special Agent Decker series? This is seems to be made following the same concept, except it's not even the least bit funny.I will not go into the political discussion about the movie, it's too bad at the surface to look for anything less than a scratch's depth below it.

My Honor Was Loyalty is an insight not only into the mindset of the defeated during WWII but also why all soldiers fight. When all else is lost, soldiers fight for their families and loved ones, not for political ideology. This is a point well made in this film. What it also shows is the wastefulness and cruelty of war. People needlessly killing one another who simply want to return home. Some have criticised this film for focusing on allied war crimes (which are well documented) but if they had bothered to watch the film in entirety it does show crimes committed by German troops as well. This is B grade fair. That said, given its budget I think it does extremely well. The acting is solid and the combat scenes convincing. A free handed camera approach is taken that some don't like but if you have ever seen actual war footage its always of this kind. For me it adds a sense of realism a lot of films lack. I like this film and I can recommend. Its does extremely well with the resources it has and the story is both touching and convincing. Seven out of ten from me.

If you're looking for a school-book view of WW2, this is the wrong film for you. However, this extremely low-budget ($15k!) debut by 22-year-old Alessandro Pepe (who also composed the soundtrack) succeeds on its own terms, which is simply to present the war as (selectively?) remembered by some SS combat veterans, which it does magnificently. Yes, the result is airbrushed: on a trivial level, everyone is clean, healthy, and wears new clothes, even in 1944; more seriously, the war crimes depicted are routine -- shooting prisoners in the heat of battle, done by both sides, which of course seems to deny the massacres of civilians and genocide that were only committed by the Germans.Clumsy expository sections tacked on at the start and end of the film don't really help, but I think the director is sincere in his wish to be true to the subjective experience of these soldiers, something he manages with exceptional maturity (which, unfortunately, only makes the weakness of the closing voice-over more blatant.)I think Pepe should be given full credit for his remarkable achievement, and allowed a little leeway on not covering all bases.However, for balance, ALSO watch the following:> Son of Saul by László Nemes> Come and See by Elem Klimov> Stalingrad by Joseph VilsmaierAnd for bonus points:> In the Fog by Sergei Loznitsa> Lore by Cate Shortland> The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Vittorio De Sica

Netflix should be responsible for spreading fascist propaganda. It is a shame that Netfix dares showing a movie that glorifies SS murderers! Acting is terrible. Storyline - boring. Dialogs - artificial. Scenenery - repetitive. This poorly directed, low budget movie is solely created to show that SS murderers were honest , innocent soldiers.Shame on you! Why FBI did not stop its distribution ?