kirjotin oman arvosteluni sivuilleni
http://patriatyrannus.deviantart.com/journal/15846431/
lontoonkielellä, enkä jaksa nyt kääntää sitä enää suomeksi. Ei paljon lisättävää siihen mitä tässä keskustelussa on jo sanottu;
Hmmm... just got back from the movies. I've been under some stress for some time and I decided to cheer myself up a little by going and seeing the new Tali-Ihantala 1944, the movie I've been expecting with high hopes for years now. Of course, partly because I myself and few army buddies were in the movie as an assistants - read my journal back from summer '06 - and partly because the subject is interesting and the movie budget was big for a Finnish war movie...
Now... I feel a little disappointed. Just a little. I was expecting more. It's hard to categorize... I'd book it as a 'dramatized documentary', not a feature film. There's a huge amount of characters, locations and dates. Person needs to have some knowledge in advance in order to keep up.
Couple more things; The way they portrayed the Soviet breakthrough on 10th June -44, didn't quite meet my vision >
http://patriatyrannus.deviantart.com/ar ... 4-65169365<, and as a whole I was expecting more tanks. Director had only few real ones in use, they played Finnish ones and Soviet ones, just switching the paint and tactical numbers & insignia. I would have added some digital ones in the background, this battle is known for it's huge amount of armoured forces. If they say that Soviet Armoured Brigade is attacking, I want to see more than two T-34s, one ISU-152 and a Klim. Second thing, where were the airplanes? Finnish Air Force? German Detachment Kuhlmey? There was a short sequence portraying the Immola airfield, with an actual Focke-Wulf (scene was shot in Germany) but then they switched into b/w archive film. And I really don't understand why director Lindman has to jam those Swedish guys everywhere?
So there's the criticism. The movie tried to portray all the arms (there's actually even a long-range patrol behind Soviet lines), unfortunately making it little confusing. This could have been a better film if they'd had concentrated on one subject, whether it was the high command, signals, armour, infantry, medics, artillery, air forces. Entertaining, but no match for Tuntematon Sotilas or Talvisota. I give -8 out of 10.
My part... the whole scene had been deleted. We had maybe 20 guys from our company in the movie as volunteer assistants, and I only recognized our medic in a 6 second clip. I still have the experience though, "paska reissu, mutta tulipahan tehdyksi".