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Dark Blue World (Tmavomodrý svet) (2001)

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 22

While it's better than Pearl Harbor, Dark Blue World still spends too much time on a trite love triangle.

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Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 7

While it's better than Pearl Harbor, Dark Blue World still spends too much time on a trite love triangle.

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The friendship of two men is tested by war, political upheaval, and romantic rivalry in this drama from Czech filmmaker Jan Sverak, whose Kolya became an international success. Lt. Franta Slama (Ondrej Vetchy) is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek (Krystof Hadek). Franta and Karel both share a great enthusiasm for the thrill of blazing across the sky, and they become fast friends; however, when Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia,

R, 1 hr. 55 min.

Drama

Zdenek Sverák

May 28, 2002

Sony Pictures Classics

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All Critics (71) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (22) | DVD (14)

It's a fitting requiem for heroes forgotten.

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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Looks like the Eastern European version of director Michael Bay's popcorn epic from last summer.

April 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment (1)
Toronto Star
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Dark Blue World almost feels like three scripts rolled into one.

April 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
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A bittersweet world, and it's frankly one to which we've been before, but seldom do we see it rendered with such exquisite, if pained, craftsmanship.

April 5, 2002 Comment
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More bleak and certainly more hushed than the relatively bombastic Pearl Harbor, but they both tell a war-movie plot staple in approximately the same way.

March 1, 2002 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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Pearl Harbor without the product placements, without the Hollywood bombast, and certainly without the $100-million-plus budget.

February 28, 2002 Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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A complex story with a number of twists, it possesses a fatalism uncommon in American films.

July 5, 2002 Full Review | Comment (1)
Des Moines Register

For all the reservations about the film itself, luckily the DVD is here to help with its features.

June 21, 2002 Full Review Source: Needcoffee.com | Comment
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The love triangle seems lifted out of "Pearl Harbor", and if there's a war movie from which you don't want to take inspiration, it's that one.

May 21, 2002 Comment

Ondrej Vetchý is impressive as the stoic Franta.

April 15, 2002 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Dark Blue World (Tmavomodrý svet)

Compelling and well crafted movie that tells the little-known true story of heroic pilots for whom WWII never really ended.Krystof Hádek is outstanding, I continue to be impressed with the quality of Czech actors and films.

January 10, 2009
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Randy Tippy

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Well unfortunately for the 2001 film "Pearl Harbor", I think I have found a film that beat it in being more engaging and more dramatic, despite a less-popcorn movie feel, and the non-100 million dollar budget! Dark Blue World, or (Tmavomodry svet), isn't going to win you with high priced action scenes and effects, but

August 10, 2007
EbertsLittleApprentice

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