On the real facts, on how a life in the nortraship fleet were for the lowest of the laimen onboard the ships, also the fact that this was an arctic convoy, they never sailed them convois during highsummer and midnightsun, and it seems theyve forgotten how the elements of nature wore out men and ship, smooth ocean in the barentz ocean is a strike of luck, and for 12 days...no !.
I expected a lot more action from this war historical norwegian production, instead they deliver a kind of enclosed dramaturgical horror that almost anyone with a cam in a studio can make.
They have some outdoor scenes, with vfx and cgi that are mostly covered by fog in the horizon . As a historical shipping nerd, i have my doupt about the shape of the ship, 2nd ww trampers had usually its steerhouse midships, not aft as in this film.
We do also have to say that norwegian actors speaks extremely blurry and hard to hear what they say, so i say again, muster up, speak loud and clear so even a norwegian may understand your gibberish kauderwelsk.
All in all, its a dragged out movie for those who shall see and learn for the future, allthough technology are different today, its still the same humans that runs the ships. I think this was a flunk, and a mismatch of real historically registered convoyes where the horrors of war seems anasthesized and the rugging and the sound of a ship underway are missing out completely.
Im writing this review on behalf of my grandfather, that wouldve been one hundred and twentyone years today, torpedoed twice while shuffling coal into the steamboiler, survived it all, with heavy , what we call today PTSD, that came to show during his last 10 years of living with dementia, where doors left open, warmth at full steam, and panick attacks when the nurse at the nursing home left the room with the bedrails in rised position (and the nurse where actually me, the reviewer at my first assignment as a nursing student...) otherwise it would be man overboard, and crushed to the floor.
So on behalf of my forefather and miself, its not so riveting as it was in real life, just a small recommend.
I expected a lot more action from this war historical norwegian production, instead they deliver a kind of enclosed dramaturgical horror that almost anyone with a cam in a studio can make.
They have some outdoor scenes, with vfx and cgi that are mostly covered by fog in the horizon . As a historical shipping nerd, i have my doupt about the shape of the ship, 2nd ww trampers had usually its steerhouse midships, not aft as in this film.
We do also have to say that norwegian actors speaks extremely blurry and hard to hear what they say, so i say again, muster up, speak loud and clear so even a norwegian may understand your gibberish kauderwelsk.
All in all, its a dragged out movie for those who shall see and learn for the future, allthough technology are different today, its still the same humans that runs the ships. I think this was a flunk, and a mismatch of real historically registered convoyes where the horrors of war seems anasthesized and the rugging and the sound of a ship underway are missing out completely.
Im writing this review on behalf of my grandfather, that wouldve been one hundred and twentyone years today, torpedoed twice while shuffling coal into the steamboiler, survived it all, with heavy , what we call today PTSD, that came to show during his last 10 years of living with dementia, where doors left open, warmth at full steam, and panick attacks when the nurse at the nursing home left the room with the bedrails in rised position (and the nurse where actually me, the reviewer at my first assignment as a nursing student...) otherwise it would be man overboard, and crushed to the floor.
So on behalf of my forefather and miself, its not so riveting as it was in real life, just a small recommend.