This old-fashioned British war drama feels a bit military surplus: the kind of second world war movie no longer needed by cinemagoers who have upgraded to more sophisticated kit. It’s the fictional story of a band of heroic British soldiers on a mission to rescue an American scientist and his atomic bomb research from the Germans.
It’s mostly well-acted, and director Giles Alderson makes the best of what looks like a limited budget. But I’m on the fence about leading man Ed Westwick: his cheekbones and pout, so useful playing conceited rich boy Chuck Bass in Gossip Girl, don’t exactly scream grizzled war hero.
