Surprisingly a good war film. I'm not big on war films but this one I found very interesting.9/10

Warming may contain spoilers! It was well known that SOE quite often lifted men that had particular gifts such as safe cracking out of prison and into their organisation. However for a soldier who is in military prison to hold a gun on a commando officer and force him to drive out of the gate is frankly ridiculous. Considering both the stance and weapon handling of Dyer leave a lot to be desired and he would have been very easily disarmed by the officer and sent promptly back to prison. However with lots of shouting and passion Dyer convinces the officer he can be a commando, another flight into fantasy. Dyer is apparently a man who saw combat before, goes through commando training and gets into fire fights. Then when all is lost he freezes, staring into space a complete zombie. I can appreciate that Danny was trying to emulate the thoughts that may enter a soldiers head, but the character development was deeply flawed and erratic. This film is apparently based on a true story, well the training part may be as to the birth of the commandos. However, in 1940 a note had been written by Winston Churchill to the War Office, saying that 5000 Parachute troops were required after Germany's success in using Airborne elements, some of these were drawn from commando units. The raid described in this film is really the raid carried out by C Company the 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, led my Major John Frost. Operation Biting was an attack on the radar station in Bruneval Northern France. A commando raid had been considered but found to be unacceptable due to the strong coastal defences, so the company with one RAF flight sergeant were parachuted in. The operation was a complete success. So in essence this film has conjoined the commandos with the Parachute Regiment, which is never a good thing to do. As for the film after the beginning I never fully recovered. Should this director or film company ever make a similar film again, let me just say this, good props but, please get proper technical advice, too many tactical errors, more on par with a cowboys and Indian film. As for the ending, it is a mistake to start with so many threads to a story-line and then not inform the viewer how they end. The film itself ended up somewhat as a mystery. My favourite character> The Scottish senior NCO, an excellent portrayal of a tough SNCO, much like some that I knew during my service with C Company 2 Para.

I am always up for a good World War II "men on a mission" movie. Emphasis on "good". This British production is quite lacking in a number of areas that at the end make the movie overall unsatisfying. The first flaw is the budget. I realize that this didn't have a Hollywood budget, and I did see that the production squeezed every last penny they had, but much of the movie looks kind of skimpy. But the movie could still have worked had it not been for the next problem - much of the movie is not exciting. After the opening action sequence, it takes forever for the next true action scene to come along. And the footage between is not very interesting - it's lacking a sense of humor, colorful characters, and original situations. Things do pick up a little in the second half of the movie due to some nice scenery and some okay action, but this material is too little and too late. While the movie isn't actively bad, it's more often than not bland, and even Brits in the audience with an interest in World War II will likely grow weary with the movie some time before the end credits start rolling.

The only reason I'm giving it two stars is because the photography is not as bad as most modern mash-ups of the WWII genre. I get so tired of cheesy CGI, deliberately jerky camera scenes to highlight "action" and grainy post processing.That said, this is really cruddy. Clichés cobbled from countless war classics are littered throughout this sorry mess.The ignorance of wartime vernacular is abysmal. Special ops indeed! The plot holes beggar belief. Other reviews suggest the makers simply ran out of money and had to wrap it up somehow. I think the editor closed his or her eyes and chopped at random so they could all go down the pub and forget about this waste of everyone's time.Sean, get a real job.