Customer Reviews

Two Men Went To War

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1 star:		(1)

 

 

A great movie -- I loved this -- both comic and thrilling. Two unlikely heroes -- dentists in the medical corps -- decide to "do their bit" by taking the war into their own hands. Many unlikely and comic surprises and the photography was excellent. It shows you can make thriller, and even a war movie, without a lot of gratuitous horror-movie type violence. The action takes place in 1942 at a low point in the war for France and England. Churchill's spirits are so low that his aides calm his spirits by offering to read to him from Kipling.

I agree that the English dialect (not the king's English) was a little hard to understand at first, but sticking with it pays off. (My copy did have captions for the deaf, though we didn't use them).

Well worth it. Wish it had subtitles...Some of the slang and accent are a bit hard to catch, but a fun little movie. Loved it!

Two Men Went to War is like Gomer Pyle but with british humor. So it's a little more understated. The film is beautiful and looked great on my widescreen TV. Both the lead actors are great and Derek Jacobi is excellent too. Lot of fun this is the kind of film you'd see on A&E or Bravo. Definitely for the over 20 crowd.

I didn't feel let down, but had greater expectations. Piecing together previews is obviously an art. We don't recall hearing about this movie when it was in theaters and were tempted by the video preview. The movie was good enough we didn't feel we wasted our time watching it, but don't feel it's anything we would watch again. And our copy didn't include sub-titles either - some dialog was hard to follow.

Just accidently came across this quirky film on BBC2.
Missed the start so missed any reference to a real adventure by two very brave ( or stupid ) serving soldiers who were anxious to serve on the front line.
Thoroughly enjoyed it even though it was obviously made very cheaply and with a small but talented cast.
Would have liked to know more about the real people but only King is listed in any web search.

after you pop-in the dvd you are forced to watch (blocked FF and skip) an ad for another movie. The ad is very long, very bad and the quality is horrible.
The sound in the movie itself is poor and it is very hard to understand the dialogs. No subtitles. the movie is cheaply made. perhaps some people can find this movie funny, we did not.
we lasted about 15 minutes before the movie went back into the red envelope...

I wish I COULD rate this movie, but it just won't play in any of my 3 DVD players. I asked for a replacement from Amazon, which they did graciously and speedily, but even the replacement fails to load and play in my player which plays other DVDs just fine. Moreover, Two Men Went To War locks up the controls of the DVD player. Obviously it isn't made to the standards of the hundreds of other DVDs I've bought from Amazon.
I have just discovered that the DVD DOES load and play in my Mac Powerbook G4. That's nice, but I had planned to see the film it in my home theater on the big screen. Bummer!