Reading through the other reviews, it appears I should be previously aware of some enormous controversy over this film: I fear I'd never heard of it until I saw that it was on TV and got a good imdb rating.

Apparently I should be offended for some reason, but I just found it all rather dull.

It makes the unforgivable mistake of trying hard to be wacky and zany, but not accompanyingly funny. I did chuckle occasionally to be fair, especially when the speccy kid dropped the Panzershreck (sp?) and it went off.

The naivety of the general idea the young woman would have been super safe if she'd just gone outside once the Russians arrived; well, history tells us all we need to know about how that went in Berlin.

On the plus side, the weaponry in the closing reel was mostly accurate, even a glimpse of an stg44, which almost made the previous 90 minutes bearable.

Oh, and the two young actors' acting was faultless, as it goes.