I am both Russian and Polish and am deeply interested in Warsaw Uprising films. Such as The Uprising was a great, huge film. This one gave some promise, too - made by Poles for Poles and in Polish. I was expecting best but I got almost worst. What went wrong? Well, several things. First, and this kills the whole production, all these totally unnecessary Doom or superhero style scenes depicting kissing, bullets flying all strange trajectories, hugely false, wrong and laughable love scene, and on top of that, this Dooom shooting scene that killed the whole message. Second, obvious nods to Private Ryan and all new US war epics with all that shaky camera, blood, loud dusty explosions, zipping bullets and deafening noise. What worked in USA did not work here. Third, really weak and generic performances of several young actors, leaving almost no hope for improvement and change. Fourth, poorly depicted events and hurried delivery, which seems to be a very amateurish attempt of re-creating The Pianist or Schindler's magic but fails flat here. In general, weak and floppy.
