Reviews

Bottom line is do you want a fat sweaty bloke in your face for over two hours.

This film technically comes across as almost amateur the picture wobbles and moves about most of the time for no real needed effect the grain is very harsh the extreme wide angle lenses cause a lot of distortion. This film needed tighter editing and a much reduced running time. The stories not that interesting to the point of being boring. When you think about the same time Fritz Lang was making Spione with much imagination and flare where's this looks like the director's been given the toy box with no follow through talent.

Looks like the whole thing was filmed on a mobile phone with its skewed images making most scenes look like they're filmed in a broom cupboard.

The budget does look very low the acting is 50/50 as is the songs.

The whole thing has not a Saturday night feel more a Tuesday afternoon dullness.

Great setting beautifully scenery.

Corny characters Story not very engaging Overlong.

The main problem which makes the film unconvincing is how the german scientist gains such great devotion from the islanders and even the girl when hes such a long faced bore.

If you need to watch a highland or the islands film Whiskey Galore.... I Know Where I'm Going and The Edge of the World are a better bet.

Massively overlong production. Olivier and Fontaine give understudy performances they just haven't got enough screen presence between them to hold the interest of the viewer there must of been two performers with some chemistry who could of done a better job. In fact you'd never really know this was a Hitchcock directing job it could of been handled by any number of competent directors from the era. If you really want to like it you'll get something out of it otherwise wind forward an hour 25 it takes that long for a story to kick in

Umm if Steve is the only one who knows how to steam the ship whys he let loose on all the daft heroics.

Lots of clever editing and imaginary direction here. Very little story in fact after we meet Dustin for the second time nothing much happens. Loads of 60s 70s films were turned out with there subject matter purely decided contary to what was and could be shown on TV thus loads of sex violence and weird stuff. Trust me even with the touching relationship between the two friends you'll be praying for the damn thing to finish.

Disappointed to many scratchy clips of war films that all look like Where Eagles Dare, didn't Yugoslavia produce anything artistic and sensitive if so you'd have no idear watching this. The best parts were about the loyal projectionist obviously he with the most talent.

Bad acting bad editing just a home movie really. Its ment to be set in 1945 but the haircuts and clothes look 1970s the budget obviously couldn't afford period transport so the street scenes look empty and bare. It's all long faced woe is me reminiscanceing. Its dull and as it's all been done much better before in documentary form pointless.