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3.0 out of 5 stars good but cheap, Oct 26 2009

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Dr. Kai Wang (Toronto) - See all my reviews
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A very good film which in addition to depicting the exploits of Czech pilots fighting for the RAF during the Battle of Britain, also tells their post war story, a fact less well known in the west. I find this part of the film very moving.

The acting and the love stories are all convincing.

Unfortunately, the movie makers use footages from other films such as "Battle of Britain" and "Memphis Belle", which "rob" of its originality. For those of us who are familiar with these other films, this is like "cheating" !!! and given the otherwise quite spectacular and original aerial shots of the flying sequences, I just feel dissatisfied at the end.

And one more thing, during the Battle of Britain, no Sptifires were equipped with 4 blade propellers and cannons, these were much later versions of the plane, I guess they couldn't come up with enough number of the Spitfire Mark 1 so they needed to borrow some Mark 9's, the same applies to the Eagle squadron in the "Pearl Harbor" movie with Ben Affleck.

It's too bad.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great film, July 2 2004

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K. OConnor (Loveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dark Blue World: Special Edition (Widescreen) (DVD)

If this film has nothing else, it has possibly the most realistic flight sequences I have seen...beautiful camera work.

The storyline could be considered a bit predictable but somehow, the ending managed to slip by my 'Got this one figured out' radar (don't know how that happened really...must have gotten distracted by the subtitles)

Overall, It makes my top 5 WWII movie list

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Blue Masterpiece, Jan 18 2004

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D. Braun "dbraun126" (MI, USA) - See all my reviews
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Years ago I collected and read many of the "Bantam War Book" Series. Each was a non-fictional first-hand personal story about "A World On Fire" - World War II.

I was especially fascinated by the RAF pilots and their incredible Battle of Britain stories. They were extraordinary men, like Douglas Bader, Stanford Tuck, and Pierre Clostermann - the brave Frenchman who, like the heroes in "Dark Blue World," fled his occupied homeland to fight for the RAF.

This movie is an undiscovered gem - resurrecting, again, the emotions of authenticity those books once evoked. While many films are ABOUT other times, this one seems like an actual peak into the past.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Blue World
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very pleased with this movie!
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