Spitfire Over Berlin

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Have been following the progress of this movie through lockdown. Local Father and Son team have again produced a low budget enjoyable movie. Considering the constraints they have managed to come up with an excellent little production. Obviously this is not a big Hollywood blockbuster but certainly is an enjoyable film. The cinematography is beautiful. Hearing and watching the CGI Spitfire soar across the countryside is hypnotic, and extremely well done. My only criticism would be that the Spit looks too clean! All in all, this is a terrific little film and well worth a watch! Great soundtrack too!

An enjoyable watch. Obviously low budget, but I don't think it's worth 1, 2, or 3 stars. Seems to me that people are taking it to the extremes. I'd say give it a go.

I understand that this film was made on a low budget, so you can't expect a full Hollywood production. Let's face it. People are already pointing out faults with the Top Gun movie which had a mega budget. So -called Spitfire 'experts' should not expect a technical review about what Mk of aircraft is being depicted in the film and how many rivers are missing.. Just go with the story of the person carrying out the mission. The film tells a story about one of the unsung heroes from WW2 and the lonely, vulnerable and dangerous role carried out, which no doubt on occasions saved many Allies lives.

Obviously low budget, but look past that and you have a well acted little film that tells the story well. You could pick holes in the small historic details but you could also do that with any of the recent big budget war films if you wanted to. Frankly I'm more interested in the people in the story, and this film expertly weaves a personal battle into the larger conflict. I'd have been content without most of the CGI, it didn't need it.

Great story telling, on a limited budget, resulting in a very watchable movie. Would recommend to anyone interested in WW2 / RAF history - and all based on true events. Excellent work by these independent film makers.

If you are looking for a standard WWII action movie, forget it.... this is not that, and from that frame of mind, it's rather boring. However.... if you just appreciate this movie for what it is.... a meaningful dramatization of what solo unarmed pilots went through undertaking dangerous missions, which no one would ever recognize what they endured... and the pain & responsibility that they willingly took on, to get the job done for the sake of others.... then you can appreciate what is shown here.

Sometimes, all you need is a compelling story and Spitfire Over Berlin is such a film. Whilst nitpickers may gripe at the quality of the CGI and certain technical inaccuracies with the Spitfire itself, this is nonetheless a most worthy effort to tell a little-known aspect of this period in history-I applaud the filmmakers for their endeavours. I feel it germane to point out that PR Spitfires were perfectly capable of reaching Berlin: the distance is under 600 miles and with the additional of internal wing tanks and another in the rear fuselage, this more than doubled the fuel capacity of a standard Spitfire and gave it a range of about 1200 miles. Later marks like the PRXIX extended this even further.

The acting is not bad, and the story is so-so (predictable and not very deep, but that's okay for war movies), but the actual spitfire is embarrassing and almost made the movie unwatchable. The opening sequence is the Spirtfire flying while avoiding flak, and the 100% CGI plane is horrendous, even worse than MS Flight Simulator. Same thing with the single flack burst that was copied and pasted numerous times. I almost shut the movie off then, but decided to tough it out for a while, but every time you almost start to look past the terrible CGI, they through some other ridiculousness in your face. The actual plane used in land scenes is obviously a mock-up built with Phillips screws that weren't used on Spitfires, some even aren't painted, and every surface is brand new - showing zero use. Kind of like watching a jungle warfare movie where they've been trekking through a tropical jungle for weeks, but their faces are still clean, their T-Shirts still white, no one is sweating, and their uniforms are still clean with creases intact. It's really hard to look past the poor attention to detail and get immersed into this movie, no matter how hard you try.

Enjoyed the story. Not groundbreaking, but some of the reviews are drastically unfair. (And illiterate. Glass houses). Given the budget, and production during a pandemic, I'd say they did a good job. I've seen much worse multi million budget films that are "critically acclaimed". Great story, that would benefit from a bigger budget to finnese any rough edges.