Unbelievably naive screenplay and boring action scenes. All the actors were excellent but due to a weak plot the result is a disillusion.
There are several absurd situations (eg. a Corporal sleeping in one room with a Squadron Leader, screening of a past mission on a projector, just to find that "Vojtisek saved Slama's life" - in reality there were only low quality photos with dark silhouettes of the airplanes).
I looked forward to beautiful filmshots of Spitfires but there were none. And the everywhere-mentioned expensive scenes with an attack on a train or an airfield bombing? I do not think the result is worth the money spent by the producers.
On the other hand, the character of a German doctor in the prison was interesting, as well as all the dialogues between the doctor and the two prisoners.
I rated two films (Skrivanci na niti and Vesnicko ma strediskova) based on a screenplay by Zdenek Sverak both 10/10 and I gave 10/10 to Obecna skola, the first film made by Zdenek & Jan Sverak. So I do not think my vote of 5/10 to Dark Blue World is biased :-(
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