My Honor Was Loyalty (2015)

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Obvious this film does not have the budget of the Hollywood blockbusters but then that is not what you should watch this film for. It is amaturish but l feel that added somehow to the story. If you cannot take amature movies do not watch it,It is about a soldier in the Waffen SS and his story but with a twist at the end. If you can become the soldier and feel the story, then the movie is a good watch. It does leave you thinking. Hard to say more without a spoiler. Lastly, the voice overs could have been a lot better also but just grin and use your imagination. If you have no imagination and need everything fed to you, then watch Saving Private Ryan or something similar...

I've watched most English speaking+ WW2 movies and divide them into 4 ages: flag waiving pro war, dippy hippy bad soldier, let me show you my special effects "gag modern" and war as "I" see it modern. This latest class can get stupidly inaccurate in its own personal way but this is a very good movie. The military hardware is reasonable in representation. The personal styles for period accuracy is very lacking but not ridicules. Battle landscape has enough back ground action in sometimes overgrown settings. That said; it has a great story of shared guilt although I find it hard to believe so few knew of the camp system. It starts out that this is not a political story and yet I feel that is exactly what it is. This is the regular people caught up in bad politics of the day. Most love their people and their countries but bad politics is a universal problem throughout history. Evil politicians causing major problems is as alive today as it was back then.

This director "Pepe" made just this movie, and that's enough to ask him to stop making films. the is no story at all, actors perform very bad, war scenes are cheesy, infantile, and the starting speech is just ridiculous (who wrote? Coelho?) rigid language, bored dialogues. in the pre WWII era Rifensthal made "triumph of the will" this a lean imitation, the work of a mediocre apprentice.

The script is awful, a hodge podge of every war movie you've seen, interminable, cribbing the awful, self indulgent cap from thin red line, badly.Worse the voice actors dubbing it are reading it like they have never read the text before and honestly, aren't very proficient readers. I kept trying to figure out who this Yevon was they were talking about, when it dawns on me, the actors don't know the word Ivan. Sigh. Awful.Pepe is peepee. Zero stars, avoid.