[.ca] Dark Blue World: Special Edition (Widescreen)

Great film:
If this film has nothing else, it has possibly the most realistic flight sequences I have seen...beautiful camera work. The storyline could be considered a bit predictable but somehow, the ending managed to slip by my 'Got this one figured out' radar (don't know how that happened really...must have gotten distracted by the subtitles) Overall, It makes my top 5 WWII movie list

Very pleased with this movie!:
My son 12 y/o watched this about 6 times before he forced me into watching it with him. I wasn't keen on a subtitled movie but I know family time is important. My wife and I along with our son gathered on the sofa to sit through it. Now that's an understatement, we sat spellbound. The story, the presentation and to tell the truth it never really occured to me that I was watching a subtitled movie. The scenery is beautiful. The story is both thrilling and romantic. Enjoy.

Dark Blue World:
One of the greatest jobs of film directing ever achieved. Watch how many beautifully positioned shots go into each wonderful seen. For simple direction, this film ranks with "Lawerence of Arabia," as one of the greatest film classics of all time.

Dark Blue World and Battle of Britain:
I viewed this movie for the first time and was expected more from the movie. In my opinion, The Battle of Britain (BOB) with Michael Caine and Lawrence Oliver from 1967 is still the better film. The Battle of Britain film had the advantage of being made only 20 years after the finish of World War II and the producers had access to genuine German and British planes thanks to the Spanish Air Force which were still using those planes. I thought Dark Blue World captures the feel of England and the English countryside, but so does BOB. Its too bad that the producers couldn't have incorporated the Polish struggle against Hitler's Blitz and showed their struggle and eventual move to the RAF in 1940 to fight in the BOB. The film Dark Blue World is worth watching once, but I can't say that is a film that is worth repeated viewings. The 1967 version of BOB gives you better overall history and feel for the actual BOB in 1940. Dark Blue World is worthy of viewing, but not to own. An Average film. Good camera work and acting, but the story is lacking.

Dark Blue Masterpiece:
Years ago I collected and read many of the "Bantam War Book" Series. Each was a non-fictional first-hand personal story about "A World On Fire" - World War II. I was especially fascinated by the RAF pilots and their incredible Battle of Britain stories. They were extraordinary men, like Douglas Bader, Stanford Tuck, and Pierre Clostermann - the brave Frenchman who, like the heroes in "Dark Blue World," fled his occupied homeland to fight for the RAF. This movie is an undiscovered gem - resurrecting, again, the emotions of authenticity those books once evoked. While many films are ABOUT other times, this one seems like an actual peak into the past.