A film on world war II, made in the 21th century, where German soldiers still speaks fluently cockney British, just does not grab me. Atop of that a corny music score makes this a perfect rot. How anyone can really like this masterpiece of boredom - in our days - puzzles me.How on earth could this film find the producers to financially back it up? No serious director with an ambition can do a world war movie where Germans troops speaks English! I am surprised to see so many viewers here giving The Bunker quite fine marks and approving words. The story itself could have been handled with some finesse and possibly resulted in a film worth seeing had the director been, for instance, Steven Spielberg. But I doubt even he could have taken this script that far.

During WWII, a small group of German soldiers retreating from advancing Allied forces seek refuge in a tank bunker that's only manned by loony old man and a young kid who are low on ammunition. The Americans surround the bunker and the men inside wait for the onslaught. Soon they learn of an underground labyrinthine of tunnels, which could used to escape, but there's something not right about it. The old man tells stories that these tunnels are haunted, but the men believe that the Americans have found there way in.Disappointing… yeah this sneeringly bleak psychological hybrid that cross war with the supernatural ("The Keep" did it better) is for most part a real blurry and flatly handled project. The murky idea behind it isn't bad and there's a potent slickness to the film, but it's hard to shake that sense that it could have been far more to it and that it doesn't really lift itself for the occasion. It just sits there for too long and when it tries to hit its stride. It never takes off and ends in pretty much a fizzle. After making us wait, there are too little surprises and thrills conjured up. Two or three nightmarish images are just not enough. Rob Green (debut as director) elaborately paces the film slowly to milk the taut situation and he crafts a drably paranoid atmosphere that reeks of shadowy menace. It's too bad he had to fall into some predictable jump scares and uninspired clichés of haunted themes. Russell Currie pips in with an eerily shuddery music score and John Pardue's polished photography captures the saturated fixtures with precise detail. The editing by Richard Milward has that uncanny firework movement about it and surprisingly some of those dreary flashbacks are chillingly displayed.Subtleness is the key, but maybe it was just too implied and clever for its own good with its preachy mannerisms. Especially since I found the delusional characters hard to tell apart and to feel for them. No real connection is really made towards them. And the whole ambiguous touch of this unseen foe never fills that fulfilling when the answers come. For me it didn't entirely click and made it even more baffling and frustrating. More so it looks at the horrors of war and the haunting nature that it has on the serving soldiers. The script that's served up is severely lacking any sort of conviction and filled with flimsy dialogues. The cast on hand are more than capable; Jason Flemying, Andrew Tiernan, Christopher Fairbank and Jack Davenport. Instead what they have to work off is rather weakly drawn up.I'm rather unsure about this low-budget effort. It's looks very good, but the story's shifty progression confounds the overall outcome.

Believe me, this is a generous four.The acting was surprisingly sound for a movie of this caliber. It's probably what kept me from giving this movie an even lower rating. There's no real character development, but I didn't expect much in the first place.Don't let any of these other reviews fool you. This is NOT a good movie. Is it a horror flick? Nah. Is it a historical war film? No, not really. I'm still having a tough time deciding how to classify it. It certainly isn't scary enough to be considered a horror, and there's not nearly enough fighting to consider it a war movie. So what is it really? In a nutshell, it's a bunch a bunch of German soldiers (who oddly enough, sound very British), trapped in a bunker as the enemy advances upon them. With nowhere to go, it seems as if they will eventually succumb to the advancing allied forces. But alas, the tunnels! Only one problem, there's some kind of "thing" roaming them. Not that it matters, we see it but once the entire movie. In their paranoia, the Germans end up killing themselves, and the movie abruptly ends with two escaping through a hole in the ground. Nothing ever really happens. Ever. I'm sitting here now, still waiting for something to spark my interest. It just never happened.If you like sitting around for an hour and a half only to feel very disappointed at the end, go ahead and see it. Otherwise, it would be wise to stay away, no matter how tempting it may seem to see this "movie".

The first thing that got my attention when I saw this movie on the shelf was the cover. Being located in the horror section I thought that this movie might provide a different outlet in a genre that is dominated by sequels and knockoffs of what is common right now (I can only imagine the amount of saw knockoffs that will be flooding the market in the next few years).But I was rather disappointed with the movie and am surprised how it got a decent rating on IMDb (are these people watching the same movie that I am or do they simply have relatives that star in this film?) The action wasn't too bad and the characters and their acting was better than what you would expect from a direct to video movie. But to classify this movie as horror is probably the biggest mistake that the director made. Now I'm not saying that it should be placed in the historical section of your local video store, but I can't honestly say that there was a moment when I was truly scared.There are some points of suspense but the director I believe fails to capitalize on this moments and get a jump out of the audience. I knew renting this movie that I wasn't going to be seeing a cult-classic or anything that was Oscar worthy but I was let down at the ending. I guess on the plus side I was never bored enough to want to turn the movie off, but that isn't saying that much.In the end I would say not to rent this movie unless you are truly a WWII buff and want to see a story based on that time period. This movie wasn't even like the typical B horror movies where you are laughing throughout the movie and not in a state of panic or fear as the director had intended with his project. This movie got a 4 from me because it wasn't the worse thing I've seen but I am still being somewhat generous with my rating.