Overview: When a raid in Normandy goes wrong, a British commando team find themselves holed up in a barn, cut off from their comrades and encircled by Wehrmacht forces. Survival seems unlikely until an unexpected discovery offers them a chance at escape.

DVD Verdict: For my money, the new movie Fortunes of War is a mighty fine, some might say gripping action flick that takes you on a journey and never lets go of your imagination or breath.

A brand new British war cinematic experience, this new movie from the brilliant director Bill Thomas (The Three Musketeers, Lockdown Kings) brings forth a vibrant, nay dutifully cultured and wholly contemporary feel to the WWII genre here.

If memory serves, the screenplay was also written in conjunction with his brother Ian Thomas (The Bunker, Amnesia: Rebirth) and tells the story of when a covert raid in Normandy goes horribly wrong. You see, a small team of British commandos are cut off from their comrades and are now being hunted down by the Wehrmacht forces. They subsequently stumble across a ramshackle old farm deep in the forest, where their immediate plans to lay low are very short lived!

For once there, trying to hunker down, keep themselves safe from the ensuring madness and deadly dangers of the outside world, they soon find that they are not alone and that there are a group of French laborers also with the same safe haven thoughts with regard the barn!

But, and not to give too much away here, as this movie is so much more than just a bullet-spewing fight out between two warring factors, things go more smoothly between them all than first feared and thus with the area still crawling with Germans, everyone groups together to fight back against the common enemy.

In conclusion, this new movie Fortunes of War - which stars James Oliver Wheatley (The Lost Pirate Kingdom), Sophie Craig (The Bay, Bulletproof), and amongst othersm Asan N’Jie (Emmerdale, Mount Pleasant) and Bob Cryer (Hollyoaks) - is an enthralling, captivating, engrossing and just a downright intelligently filmed WWII flick that not only can be classified as action, but I would also include that it is also a rather intriguing thriller of the highest order.

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