I read the reviews, talked to people who had seen it, and was led to believe it was the greatest war movie of all time. Far from it. It can't be mentioned in the same breath as SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, for instance, and I could name a good handful of others. I was confused by all the separate scenes each lasting but a few seconds. This made it seem an eternity before the Spitfire shot down the German bomber, and there was the damaged Spitfire, gliding and gliding. The huge budget provided for merely a few planes and a token number of rescue ships.How else was it spent? Plenty of noise, stupendous action, and very little acting or even dialogue. No, this war movie was disappointing to say the least.