Dark Blue World (2001)
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.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 15 | 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,
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Cast
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Ondrej Vetchý
Lt. Franta Slama -
Tara Fitzgerald
Susan Whitmore -
Oldrich Kaiser
Machaty -
Charles Dance
Wing Commander Bentley -
Anna Massey
English teacher -
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All Critics (71) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (22) | DVD (14)
It's a fitting requiem for heroes forgotten.
Looks like the Eastern European version of director Michael Bay's popcorn epic from last summer.
Dark Blue World almost feels like three scripts rolled into one.
Top CriticA 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.
Dark Blue World's warm story and beautiful photography almost hits the mark, and it has a great ending.
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.
A complex story with a number of twists, it possesses a fatalism uncommon in American films.
For all the reservations about the film itself, luckily the DVD is here to help with its features.
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.
Ondrej Vetchý is impressive as the stoic Franta.
Audience Reviews for Dark Blue World
Super Reviewer
Dark Blue World, or (Tmavomodry svet), isn't going to win you with high priced action scenes and effects, but it will get you with a lucid story line, that is drenched in heartfelt dialouge and makes you feel pride.
So what about the acting? Well of course this film is forgien and includes both Czech and English dialouge, but you can still really feel that they know what they are doing on screen and are just as good as our Hollywood counterparts, and maybe , especcialy in this film, maybe even better then some of them.
The score was rather impressive , although it wasn't as good I expected, but rather still as good as I was hoping. It really meshed well in the right action scenes, mellowing out when it was a really good time for it to slow down.
Yes, somehow this film kept me thouroghly enganged throughout, and I rather found this film as a little gem for my collection. I am not sure why, but this film is a film in which you never hear of it, but when you do, you can't stop not hearing about it, from yourself!
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Foreign Titles
- Dark Blue World (Tmavomodry svet) (DE)
- Dark Blue World (Tmavomodry svet) (CA)
Krystof Hádek is outstanding, I continue to be impressed with the quality of Czech actors and films.