Review of Comandante

After watching this movie, besides all the unlikely situations it depicts (among several other nonsense: the scene of the sabotage of the submarine's electrical panel), the mind runs to this quote taken from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the night", referring to Italians in general: "I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon-down here everybody thinks he's Christ." The director of this film must be seriously affected by some kind of psychological syndrome that cannot be better described. The evidence comes towards the end of the film, when the Belgian commander asks the Italian one something like this: "Why did you save us? We wouldn't have done the same for you". To the careful spectator the logical answer here would have been "Because we are seafaring men", as that was the refrain repeated by the Italian commander, insistently, along the story just told. Instead, the answer here suddenly turns to a highly presumptuous "Because we are Italians".

Vision strictly recommended only to that slice of Italian public who is affected by a similar kind of superiority complex: they will love this film. All others: avoid carefully this pile of garbage!