An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Gemma Arterton, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though the movies dealing with the UK during WWII are usually intriguing because the British people had such a different experience of this war than the other people living in Europe, I still had a hard time to care about the damned thing though. At least, I have to admit that the film-within-the-film was actually really well done and I completely understood that the British audience would feel a deep connection with this flick but I’m afraid it was pretty much the only thing that really worked though. Indeed, even if Gemma Arterton was, as usual, really lovely, to be honest, she delivered another rather uninspired performance and Sam Claflin wasn’t much better, I’m afraid. Obviously, their characters were both supposed to be smart and witty but I thought they were such a bland couple after all. On top of that, Arterton’s was not stuck in 1 half-baked romance but actually in 2 half-baked romances resulting in some rather useless love triangle. Seriously, if Jack Huston’s character would have been removed, I'm not sure if it would have had much impact on the whole story. Finally, the way her relationship with Buckley did end was also completely random and a really cheap way to give the whole thing an extra dramatic edge that it really didn’t need. At least, Bill Nighy was, as usual, quite fun but it is the kind of role that he could pretty much play in his sleep. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, I have to admit that the damned thing was still rather harmless and I guess it might be worth a look if you really like genre.