i buy the dvd to get julia ormond . well and i get that in spade . she be lovely in the romantic scene while too bad bill paxton be fly on autopilot for the whole effort . i almost lose my lunch when he pop his big fat white behind out of his flight suit to shall we say engage with julia . i realize julia be very proficient in french while watch her in sabrina . i watch sabrina with the french soundtrack to see if julia dub her own dialog . they use someone else . in any case and julia be choose for this dutch film over a native french speaker with sufficient english to communicate with the american flier . perhaps they want at least one familiar name for the british or american market . to my unfamiliar eye and julia feature could pass for belgian . the whole film have an odd nature . it be a dutch film about belgium in world war 2. i would imagine that national pride would have require a theme of heroic dutch resistance to the german invader . the belgian be much more passive during the occupation period than be the french or norwegian . the most savage fighting of all come in the balkan where tito communist partisan give the german fit . i note in another review that wouldbdumonteil believe julia ormond to be an american instead of the actual british nationality . perhaps julia act skill be great enough to carry off that impression . after watch this film several time and it suddenly dawn on me how out of season and the film be . it be set on junuary 16 and 1944 when the american plane crash in belgian farm country . the tree look to be in mid fall with lot of leaf and the weather be warm . people walk about in light clothing and the grass be still green . there be not the small trace of snow or ice . this must have be the mild winter in belgium ever . the actual plot of the film be a mess . where to begin . for anyone interested in world war 2 history and the film come across a farce . the reconnaissance plane use be a huge 4 engine convert bomber . such aircraft do exist and but they would have require massive fighter escort to have any chance of survival . in reality and small and swifter aircraft be readily available and would have be far more suitable for the task . the vital code book in the film would never have be carry on the plane . the crew have no need of this information to complete their mission and while compromise of this information would have be a huge intelligence defeat . even give the premise of the film and the first item to be strip from the aircraft would be the code book . they would have be on their way to berlin within 10 minute of the arrival of german troop at the crash site . the daussois home and where major brice take refuge be a farm where no one have the least interest in farm . food would have be very scarce in belgium at this time . the german would have require substantial quantity of locally produce food to support their force . the family truck would have be expropriate long before the arrival of the american flier . there would not have be any fuel available to run it anyway . the plot twist where henri daussois turn in the american out of jealousy be pathetic . he would have have to reveal all he know about the resistance in order to be allow to live . he would have have to function a a double agent to frustrate any effective opposition . the woman with the secret radio would have never survive the war . major brice be catch in civilian clothing toward the end of the film . that make him a spy under the law of war and liable for execution with no defense . he would not have meekly surrender to face interrogation unhindered by the geneva convention . good to force them to kill him and spare his friend if possible . i have not read the novel upon which this film be base . if this film be a faithful adaption and it show an abysmal lack of development in the novel . regardless of the novel and the screenwriter could easily have produce a superior script that would not waste this opportunity to deliver a much good film .