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Summary: Excellent War Movie
Review: This was one of the best war movies I ever saw. The action was great and I did not even mind the sub-titles. The weapons and equipment were real, I especially got a joy at seeing the Tokarev SVT's. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Very interesting pic, abysmal DVD from Belle and Blade
Review: To make it short: The picture is very interesting, a must see for every war movie fan. Especially the fighting on the huge-scale sets including vintage russian armour (even a flamethrower tank is roaming the battlefield!) is VERY impressive.However, the DVD edition from a company or label "Belle and Blade" is one of the worst I have ever seen. The picture quality is sub-VHS Standard, the sound in a flat stereo, the english subtitles are totally oversized and not removable, there are no extras at all - in one word, you'll get pure... for your hard-earned Euros (or Dollars). What a pity, the picture has deserved a decent relaese. So, for the movie itself, I would say 4 out of 5 stars, for the DVD: None at all and a beating for the guys who are responsible for this mess...
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Summary: MOVIE = GREAT, DVD = HORRIBLE
Review: Winter War is a great movie, but a horrible DVD. The picture quality STINKS, and there are NO EXTRAS.
It is impossible to turn the sub-titles off either. However, from a military perspective, the movie ROCKS!!
There is battle scene after battle scene, with all of it re-inacted with tremendous realism. Watching the combat take place in the cold Finnish landscape, you will feel transported in time to the Winter of 1939-40. You will know what the experience was of a Finn soldier fighting against the Soviet horde. I am planning on buying and reading the non-fictional book, Talvisota, because the movie does not give much of a strategic view of the 120 day war. The movie is dedicated to the tactical side of the fighting, because that is what the typical Finn solider did (example - "this is your trench, there is the enemy, NONE SHALL PASS!") For overall descriptions of troop movements, and the reasons why the Soviet Army was turned away in stalemate at the end of the conflict, one needs to read a pure historical account. PS If any small country in the World needs inspiration to fight off the military aggressions of a big bully, then this story is it!
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Summary: I Know what you mean!
Review: Yes! I'm a finn and I cannot give you a totally perfect description about this movie. It just contains so much things that other people just are not able to understand.
For me this movie is so important as a finn. I'm not sure, but I think these guys where the only one in the whole world that had stopped the sovied army invation on their border.
The fact that both of my grandfathers had been fighting exactly same places in Taipale like this movie makes it special to me. They never talked about war to me, but my father told me that the coloned that appeared in the movie, Matti Laurila, actually visited my grandfather before the war.
I'm not going to judge the DVD because I have not seen it, but have seen the TV version and It's about 4 hours long. So I could imagine how much they have had to edit out.
I would to recommend this movie to all those who still believe in high spirit that no land cannot be taken over, if they are all just standing as a one solid nation. It does not matter small they are.
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