Tmavomodrý svet 2001

Critics score:
62 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: An evocative, richly plotted, edge-of-the-seat war epic. Read more

Marta Barber, Miami Herald: Dark Blue World's warm story and beautiful photography almost hits the mark, and it has a great ending. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: An effective journey through a little-known World War II story. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Its heart-tugs are mostly effective. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: It's a fitting requiem for heroes forgotten. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: This could be called an art house version of Pearl Harbor, except that sounds vaguely nutritious, like fat- free yogurt or a historical episode of A&E's Biography. But Dark Blue World is all empty carbs, like malted milk balls. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: An engrossing, elegantly detailed, intermittently sappy dramatization of the heroism of Czech bomber pilots and the ignominious fate that awaited many of them in the years following the war. Read more

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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Does the world really need another painstakingly old-fashioned World War II saga? Read more

Globe and Mail: Dark Blue World almost feels like three scripts rolled into one. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Recycles some of the aerial combat footage shot for Battle of Britain (1969) and indeed some of the same old-fashioned war movie cliches. Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: The memorable stars ... are the Spitfires and Messerschmitts in its aerial battles -- a crackerjack combination of live action, special effects and recycled footage. Read more

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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Looks like the Eastern European version of director Michael Bay's popcorn epic from last summer. Read more

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Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Gawky and precious as the film can be, its context is nothing less than the 20th century. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The movie's ambitions ... are not matched by the actual story. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Sverak has a great feeling for the glories of airplanes, and the technical resources in the picture are astounding. Read more