Resistance: 1942
quiver distribution
Reviewed for Shockya.com and BigAppleReviews.web by Harvey Carton, linked to Rotten Tomatoes
Director: Matthew Hill, Landon Johnson
Screenwriters: Matthew Hill, Landon Johnson
Cast: Carrie Alves, Jason Patrick, Judd Hirsch, Sebastian Roche, Greer Grammer, Gilles Marini
Shown here: Critics Hyperlink, NYC, 11/4/22
Opening: November 11, 2022
the race is on. Which Will End First: The Pandemic, or Movies About World War II? We hope that the last film goes first, and let’s get to more conflict movies, as a survey confirmed that when Americans were requested to outline “Auschwitz”, only one-third did. Thought it.
With “Resistance: 1942”, writer-directors Matthew Hill and Landon Johnson may have hinted at a World War 1 trope when their film would open right here in the US on Veterans Day, formerly often called Armistice Day, when the march Foch had taken the German. Up in a railway vehicle on 11/11/11. Now in this latest conflict picture, we see France under the Nazis, and naturally any occupiers would wage guerrilla warfare against the intruders. As such, the protestors are not physically fighting against the Nazis, with few exceptions. Instead under the management of Jacques (Carrie Alves), a group of rebels use the radio to offer hope to the French, ending the underground broadcast with “Stay safe, my friends”. It doesn’t just go down to the Gestapo (how many Americans know what that phrase means?), attempting to triangulate the resistance, search for the perpetrators, and wipe them out just as they ( According to a high)-Nazi level at a cocktail party) decide to rid Europe of Jews, cripples, communists and gypsies.
With Group Germany led by Officer Claus Jger (Sebastian Roche) and Group France led by Jacques, the wheels are set in motion. Jacques takes the cowl with a Jewish couple represented by his daughter Juliet (Greer Grammer) and Bertrand (Judd Hirsch—whose most famous line in “Independence Day” is “No one is perfect”).
Shifting from one to the other several times, there is a lot of hustle and bustle and planning. Opening in Lyon, the Patriots move to the south of France to pursue their hideout and broadcast. They were befriended by André (Jason Patrick), a Swiss fellow who had an exclusive office in Lyon and a mansion within the Cte d’Azur, which offered a place to feed and cover the group. does. It seems that he was concerned in a shady deal that got him that splendid, a deal that might have prevented him from righteous appointment among the nations at Yad Vashem.
The film appears somewhat amateurish (especially the word about an enduring look of concern on Greer Grammer’s face) and a script that is so sentimental that it could very well be used by parents who Work in commercials for Hallmark playing cards. It doesn’t help that everyone speaks English; French, German and Swiss alike – separated by a second of Hebrew prayer by Bertrand.
110 mins. © 2022 Harvey Carton, Member, New York Film Critics Online. By
Story B
acting-c
Technical – B
Overall – C+
