Giving credit where it's due the use of Polish in the film from actors who don't normally speak Polish was worth a star.

The rest was worth 0.

Pilots with their oxygen masks hanging off during combat so we can see who is who was ridiculous. Speaking from the side of their mouths to issue instructions and congratulate each other was insulting to the audience and the pilots who flew during the Battle Of Britain.

The planes flew like something out of a Star Wars movie and they seemed to have endless ammunition. Yes I know they only had one Hurricane but the beauty of CGI is you can make it look real if you put some effort in. These were Hurricane's not space ships.

Red Tails did the same when they tried so badly to tell the story of brave black US airmen. That was an insult to brave men and this was as well.

The story of one of the best squadrons during the BOB was boring and the love story aspect even worse. Even casting Ramsay Bolton could not make it interesting.

The British film Battle Of Britain told the story of the pilots and ground personnel wonderfully. They even acknowledged the many non British pilots who fought and died with a particular emphasis on Polish pilots.

Don't waste any time on this tripe watch BOB instead and see how to make a proper film.

One group of mostly unsung heroes are the international pilots who served with the British during WWII. In the case of "Hurricane" most of these pilots are Poles....Polish pilots who escaped to Britain after the fall of Poland in 1939. And, in some ways this film is a nice tribute to them and their heroism. I say 'in some ways' because sometimes the film is very good....and sometimes the writing is pretty insufferable. Too often, the men fight, argue and act in ways that the Poles couldn't have acted....and it felt so much like it was controversy and the like just for the sake of controversy in the film. And, it's all way overly melodramatic and ham-fisted. The men deserved better than this.

HURRICANE is a spin on the usual WW2 movie in that it's told from the viewpoint of Polish airmen, who often get overlooked in such aerial combat pictures. Sadly, that's the most interesting aspect of this B-movie style production, and even that isn't handled in a very interesting way. Iwan Rheon is the morose lead, heading a lacklustre cast including Nicholas Farrell and Mel Gibson's son Milo. A lack of money really hampers things here, with just-about-passable CGI dogfight scenes, bad scripting and embarrassingly clunky line delivery. The "romantic" scenes are particularly embarrassingly handled. If you like this genre, you'd be better off stick with the old classics.