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The Lost City of Z (2016)
Unbearable 2017 feminist overtones
Slow moving film, reasonably acted. Too often a caricature (rest assured the Europeans are the bad ones) with hysterical passages where Percy Fawcett's wife recites all the XXith century feminist arguments).
Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
Entertaining but not of any spoiler alert
Entertaining but we know right from the start that the horrible plans of the nasty Germans will be foiled.
Anachronistic in several aspects: antisemitism was not something rare, neither was racism or even eugenics in the Anglo-Saxon world. So why all the terrified looks and thrilling music when we discover this. Neither was listening to German radio for German girls in an Anglo-German school.
Kessler (1981)
Caricatural, preachy, simplistic
Difficult to watch. This is an overdrawn Boys of Brazil. With similarly thick accents. The plot is not gripping at all. The Israeli girl a poor actress. The show grows preachy (European country do so little to catch the war criminals that we are told with a straight Israel must do the job, the whol hit squad being a petite Sephardic woman), the Fourth Reich business was already laughable in 1981. The show is slow, hardly believable, the characters are hard to like, the "nostalgic" bits too frequent. Pass you way. Just watch the Secret Army, a far more subtle series (especially in its second and third seasons).
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
So historically bad
«However King Leopold of Belgium is bankrupt and is looking for ways to get so money, so he sends this guy to the Congo to establish an ivory and diamond trade.»
This is so wrong as far as historical facts are concerned : Leopold was indeed (nearly) bankrupt but he simply got Belgium to pay for his debts in exchange for the Congo. It used to be Leopold's private property until 1908. The Belgium government (led by a socialist van der Velde) was not very happy about this: Leopold had promised to the parliament his adventure in the "African Congo" as the movie for American ignoramuses says. (Do you know of any other Congo than the African one? Not me.)
Belgium was the 8th economic power at that time and not because of the Congo at all but because of its coal, steel and other industries (trams, trains, electric power stations, textiles) and its trade with Central Europe and the Russian Empire. Belgium turned to Congo after the WWI and the lost of the Central European and Russian Empire markets. But Congo never was a profitable as those old markets (no one in Congo to buy anything).
Oh, and the CGI really bores me.
Sahara (1943)
Bad propaganda movie
I relied on the glowing mark attributed to this movie on IMDb and wasted an hour and a half watching this predictable propaganda movie.
The Germans are dumb or devious caricatural Nazis. The Italian a nice chap who would have liked to be an American. The American sergeant (in Libya in 1943!?) commands the vassals of the US, even a British officer, superior to him in rank.
I really could not understand how the Germans could not outflank the small Bogart crew but insisted on frontal attacks. I couldn't quite get either where Bogart was getting his fuel for his gas-guzzling antiquated tank. There is never any suspense or subtle portraits.
Only for unconditional patriotic Americans or Bogart fans.