Review of Iron Sky (2012) by Panta O — 29 Sep 2012

This is one of the movies you will love or hate... because it is not for everyone. This Finnish-German-Australian production was mostly shot in the Warner Bros Studios on the Gold Cost in Australia. Quirky sense of humour is employed sometimes awkwardly in a screenplay which could be so much better if someone just tried harder... a little bit harder!

For most people a story about Nazis on the moon could be far-fetched, especially with their plans to invide the Earth, but I have to say, it has some background in the documents which survived and are available to the public... At the end I decided to give it a positive review, because actually I liked it. It seemed odd enough to keep my interest the whole time, it looked terrific, performances were quite satisfactory ... really, the only thing which could increase the rating was the screenplay. They had plenty to develop but it seems that the time was the issue... or could be the way they did it! Iron Sky is one of a new wave of productions, including Artemis Eternal, The Cosmonaut, A Swarm of Angels, and RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, produced in collaboration with an on-line community of film enthusiasts, that are creating a new kind of participatory cinema. At Wreck-a-Movie, a collaborative film-making web site, the producers have invited everyone interested in "chipping in" with their ideas and creativity to read the tasks given to the community and to take a shot (write an entry) - and something like this is a result.

Check it out - because there are plans for a prequel and a sequel- you'll have to know what happened in the middle!