I expected to really like this film; the actors are some of my favorites and I'm an unrepentant sucker for World War II movies.

I did not expect to love this film, which I very much did.

Brendan Fraser is the unstoppable force to Andrew Scott's immovable object. Brendan not only commands every room he's in as Eisenhower, he fills it up like a powder keg about to explode. Scott, too, commands respect as a squared-away scientist even as his…

Dreadful. Just absolutely dreadful.
You were asking how I felt watching this, right?

The impotence of the adults in this film (up until the very end) was incredibly frustrating, as was intended. The only character with an ounce of heroism in him from the start is the little boy. His parents did nothing to try to protect him, not even after they find their beloved dog murdered at the beginning of the film. Not even when the boy returns and…