"Blood and Gold" is a mostly entertaining little Nazi-killing action flick from Germany. It has a few cool moments, some that were even unexpected by this viewer.
I don't really know what the movie was about, and it's not off-the-wall crazy enough for that to bother me. It feels like all the expository scenes and dialogue were cut from the movie. I got that there were two good guys, a man and a woman. When the movie begins, we see the man running from Nazis, but we don't know what for. So the movie begins right in the middle of the action, and it mostly continues that way.
Inexplicably and improbably, the Nazis catch the hero, but don't just kill him outright - they hang him, giving the lady hero a chance to enter the fray (she saves him).
What's troubling to me about movies like this is that this is set in a real-life time and place, and yet it's more like a comic book. When you see the Nazis throwing their weight around, killing people and assaulting women, you know what you're seeing really happened. But then when you see the heroes ride in, avoiding gunfire by running sideways and dispatching the Nazis in creatively violent ways, you know that didn't happen. They may have lost the war, but they got away with plenty. Life isn't a movie. So it makes you wish they had created a fake war for their fake heroics, and not reminded us of a real-life situation in which millions of innocents were killed, and the guilty mostly got away with it.
I don't really know what the movie was about, and it's not off-the-wall crazy enough for that to bother me. It feels like all the expository scenes and dialogue were cut from the movie. I got that there were two good guys, a man and a woman. When the movie begins, we see the man running from Nazis, but we don't know what for. So the movie begins right in the middle of the action, and it mostly continues that way.
Inexplicably and improbably, the Nazis catch the hero, but don't just kill him outright - they hang him, giving the lady hero a chance to enter the fray (she saves him).
What's troubling to me about movies like this is that this is set in a real-life time and place, and yet it's more like a comic book. When you see the Nazis throwing their weight around, killing people and assaulting women, you know what you're seeing really happened. But then when you see the heroes ride in, avoiding gunfire by running sideways and dispatching the Nazis in creatively violent ways, you know that didn't happen. They may have lost the war, but they got away with plenty. Life isn't a movie. So it makes you wish they had created a fake war for their fake heroics, and not reminded us of a real-life situation in which millions of innocents were killed, and the guilty mostly got away with it.