1939: Battle of Westerplatte

True war movie that is worth watching but don't expect wall to wall excitement. Fighting scenes are lacking. I say B-
"If we go to war no one will back us up." September 1st, 1939, the Polish city of Gdansk is an important port city that the German's are looking to take control of. Trying not to scare the entire country the army decides to send a small group of 600 soldiers against the Germans with only one goal, hold out for at least 12 hours. When it becomes clear that no support is coming for them and with dwindling supplies and medical aid they have to decide to fight till the last man falls or surrender. This is a true story of the first battle of WWII. This is not a terrible war movie at all and is worth seeing but it is pretty slow moving and the war scenes leave something to be desired. The movie is interesting though and really makes you understand what the Polls went through in the beginning of Hitler's advance but it is just a little too slow in some parts to stay fully focused on. Overall, a true war movie that is worth watching but don't expect wall to wall excitement. I give it a B-.

Very Good Polish WW2 Film
Very good foreign film about a couple hundred Polish soldiers defending a peninsula near Danzig/Gdansk, Poland in the first few days of WW 2 in Europe. I don't specifically know the history of this battle. But the storyline seems good, there's moral dilemmas, fear and bravery in battle, insubordination and difficult choices for the Polish. There are quite a few good action scenes. It's a foreign film, so don't expect something like Saving Private Ryan, Defiance or U571. In My opinion, if Your a fan of WW2 or Foreign films. This is well worth watching. Like a lot of foreign WW2 films I've seen it is longer and has noticeable dubbing. It would fit in the top ten or 20 (I watch a lot of foreign and foreign WW2) foreign films. I'll watch it again a few times I'm sure. I was slightly surprised they didn't mention the Communists attacking Poland from the East. Since they mentioned Britain and France declaring war on Germany. If those poor Polish Souls only knew what was in store for them...

Not a well done WWII film; adds nothing to your library
I'm a huge WWII film buff and wanted to like this film but it totally missed the mark with me. The story of the start of WWII and the Poles being attacked by Germany certainly is compelling as a staring point, but I had to fast forward theu sections of this film I disliked most of it so much. First; the battle scenes are rather poor. Their is a lot of "Poles fire 3 rounds--5 Germans fall down" kind of action which is not compelling. Then the main story line of two contrasting leaders of the Polish defense constantly at odds with each other could have been great but...the one leader is totally brave & gung ho, and the other has severe shell shock or some other condition and is disappearing from leading his men just when they need him most over & over. This aspect of the film gets repeated many times and becomes downright annoying after awhile and ruins any good points of the film in my view. Other 'new' movies on WWII are out now like "Storming Juno" which is a terrific little movie,...

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