The Estonian story of WWII was never told to me before, so this was the attraction point for me to see this one.
To dissect the movie - it has great visuals, great war scenes, way too many for a 100 minute movie, but this is the point; it has a fairly loose story, mostly held through history, not through characters or their development, or through dialogue; on the other side the music is sordid, not befitting a serious movie, and comes as cheap and cheapening the over all art.
For comparison to Russian war movies, it lacks all the poetry, and in comparison to German war movies, it lacks the character building, but it does give grit and endurance through the hopelessness of the overall war fighting for no reason except to kill or not be killed, so in this sense it stands much more against war.
To dissect the movie - it has great visuals, great war scenes, way too many for a 100 minute movie, but this is the point; it has a fairly loose story, mostly held through history, not through characters or their development, or through dialogue; on the other side the music is sordid, not befitting a serious movie, and comes as cheap and cheapening the over all art.
For comparison to Russian war movies, it lacks all the poetry, and in comparison to German war movies, it lacks the character building, but it does give grit and endurance through the hopelessness of the overall war fighting for no reason except to kill or not be killed, so in this sense it stands much more against war.