After the excellent Band of Brothers this movie just doesn't stand a chance. The characters are thin, and their emotions simplified. They don't grow or evolve. Ok, so what about the flying sequences? The minimal amount of the film that actually involves flying is meaningless. Where is the ongoing air war? There are no objectives at all. People just fly around and run into some messerschmitts. Long dogfights are cut into few seconds so that even the director himself couldn't figure out who shot whom. Dark Blue World is neither an adequate love story nor a good war movie. Go watch Titanic and Das Boot instead.
Review of Dark Blue World
