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IN A NUTSHELL: Inspired by the real-life German special operations unit KG 200 that shot down, repaired, and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses, "Wolf Hound" takes place in 1944 German-occupied France and follows the daring exploits of Jewish-American fighter pilot Captain David Holden. Ambushed behind enemy lines, Holden must rescue a captured B-17 Flying Fortress crew, evade a ruthless enemy stalking him at every turn, and foil a plot that could completely alter the outcome of World War II.

THINGS I LIKED: There are some beautiful aerial shots and impressive cinematography. The first 25 minutes are exciting aerial acrobatics in the sky over German-occupied France.

Real WWII Period Aircraft featured in this film include a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, North American P-51 Mustang fighters, Supermarine Spitfire fighter, Hawker Hurricane fighter, North American B-25 Mitchell bomber, and Messerschmitt Bf 109 (ME 109) fighter. Not a single computer-generated plane is in the movie! That's impressive!

For aircraft destruction/explosion shots, detailed scale models were filmed and then further enhanced with Visual Effects, but no shot is 100% computer-generated.

To film the skydiving sequences after two weeks of prep, Luke Aikins and Skydiving Double Andy Farrington performed a total of 14 jumps with customized parachute rigs on their helmets in 2 shooting days for the film.

The handsome and buff cast members include James Maslow, Trevor Donovan, John Turk, Michael Wayne Foster, John Wells, Taylor Novak, Michael Parrish, Brian Heintz, and more.

THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE: The plot is kind of silly with basically one American defeating a ton of Nazis and saving the day. The movie is said to be based on a true story, but I don't know enough about the actual history of these events to know how accurate the movie is.

The most compelling moments of the film are when we're up in the air with the dogfights.

It's pretty cliched and extremely melodramatic.

Some bad editing moments.

The movie is simply too long for what it offers.

Some of the accents aren't very good.

One-note characters with very clunky dialogue. Most of the dialogue is grumbled through clenched teeth.

Some of the action sequences and shoot-outs aren't very good. For example, the Nazis conveniently jump out to attack the Americans one at a time.

There are some really dumb lines like, "Oh man, this does not look good! What are we going to do?" Another line that is spoken quite a number of times is, "No, no, no!" The blood on people looks really fake.

TIPS FOR PARENTS: Explosions and destruction Bloody deaths with a high dead body count Some German is spoken without subtitles.

Torture is seen and heard.

THEMES: Persistence Patriotism Revenge WWII Jews and faith War

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Wolf hound? You'll be the one howling with laughter at this thing. Come for the gigantic brass star of David pendants apparently all Jewish flight crew were issued. Stay for the big plastic swastika flag melting.

This flick ticks all the cliché boxes: We've got a creepy scientist who looks like a cross between the Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Gollum. We've got the now-obligatory Black soldier(s) and French resistance woman. We've got a guy yelling "nooo" when someone gets shot in slow motion, with the surrounding firefight thoughtfully remaining silent for a minute so dying guy can say his last words. We've got a big musclebound Nazi who strips down to his wifebeater for the big fight scene. We've got a guy saying "This ends now" and "Let's finish this."

We've got so much modern language going on ("brainstorm"? Really?), that you expect the evil commandant to bust out a "Hashtag Jews be bad, yo."

Four stars for the story managing to hold together and for the effort the Nazi officers put into sucking in their cheeks to have cheekbones.

Simply don't set any expectations and you'll make it through. It's a bit tough to chew on, but it's edible. The cover of the movie is perhaps the key feature. The actors do what they need to do to get paid and meh they pumped out a film.

The aircraft scenes are absolutely gorgeous because they used actual airplanes for them, however the rest of the movie sucks. Bad cgi bullets, things that make no sense, and an obvious push for woman power, etc.

Reminds me of the old spaghetti westerns, low budget , terrible acting , doesn't live up to the hype it was given! Would view this more as a comedy then an action movie . Movie says it was based on real events ....really?? But don't take my word for it , if you have 2 hours to waste please watch this movie and see for yourself!

The script for this movie is totally ridiculous. I did not serve in combat during WWII, did serve in the Marines in Vietnam. I laughed through the first 15 minutes of the movie. No professional military person, whether he was in the Army, Navy, Marines or Army Air Corp would have acted as these people did. Totally unbelievable. They found a suitable bunch of actors to match the quality of the script. Some of them would never have made the cut in most of the high school plays I've seen. I've seldom heard worst German accents than these people had. If you have to kill 2 hours of time, don't spend it watching this terrible movie. Hit your thumb with a hammer. It will be less painful.

Cool aircraft, so so acting & a stupid story line make for a movie I wish I'd not paid money to see. A Bf 109 can't out maneuver a B 25?? Some really hard to believe sequences in this movie.

I have to admit I only sat down to watch this to see James Maslow and Trevor Donovan as both seemed completely miscast for this type of film. They were, and I lasted about 15 minutes before turning it off. The opening sequence, with 5 fighter planes, could have been exciting, but it was so choppily filmed and edited I had no idea who was in what plane or what was even going on. I was both bored and then horrified by the bad acting. No sense or feeling at all that this was supposed to be taking place in 1944. Not entertaining.

Bad movie and not worth watching Don't waste two hours of your life watching it I don't recommend it at all It doesn't deserve even half its star Bad acting and directing.

Bad acting! These two words describe the movie in toto. The plot and storyline was good and I think it would have turned out to be a good movie only if the acting and dialogue was better.

The acting, the timing and direction are poor. Most of the action effects were probably made from home by using Adobe After Effects. Lots of silly moves that are unrealistic. This this movie is ok for the kids.

Pretty solid film, no matter the duration. Definitely one of the better ones in this category. If obvious technical omissions are ignored, well spent two hours. T. Donovan stands out from the cast. I'm surprised he was able to play a role like this and he did it more than great.

This movie is better than the rating it received so far.

Yeah, some of the actors are a bit over the top, but the the combat sequences are good enough to keep you watching.

Also, if you are into WWII era warplanes, this is a good watch.

Wow. The cheesy acting, ridiculous one liners, and over the top stereotypes. What a colossal waste of time and money. Save yourself two hours and just dont.

It doesn't make sense so many times, that it becomes infuriating. From the illogical combats, to people changing language when it helps the writer, and predictable moves... I mean, if you can watch this movie to the end, you certainly are the hero, here!

In the real world KG 200 did a lot of special operations and had to check all enemy planes for the Luftwaffe. Of course these machines had no ammo or bombs, as the german types (mostly) did not fit into the guns or suspensions. Testing was mostly for weak/strong spots and maneuverability to guide own pilots, they were never used for attack missions. Planes had german markings and huge yellow wingtips and lower surfaces, so german AA guns won't shoot at them.

Well, in this movie they use a huge number of restored, real original aircraft, and all aerial shots are perfect and beautiful. But of course, all planes are different types except for a pair of P-51, and the storline uses them in an unrealistic way.

Two things may spoil your experience: First the lack of equipment and locations urges the story into outright stupid directions. Every car, uniform and weapon is different, the prison is in the hangar, and fuel barrels are stacked everywhere. Announcements of top secret informations are done over loudspeaker.

Second, and this killed the movie for me, the americans are sort of video game avatar, so they have to kill a lot of NPCs and some bosses, with predicable results.

Good flying sequences with real classic WW2 aircraft and, at least, no aircraft were damaged in making this movie. Continuity issues with aircraft riddled with bullets in aerial sequences appearing in pristine condition when they land. However, this movie is more memorable for the jingoistic claptrap and dreadful acting. Corny and far fetched storyline with "our" goodies versus "their" evil baddies. Enough pyrotechnics to cause global warming and raise worldwide energy prices, with plenty of use of the trampoline of death in the fight scenes, bouncing the baddies to oblivion. Save over 2 hours of your life and wash the car/do the garden instead. How on earth can someone give it a 7/10 . Not worth 0.7.

In the 60's, I read many biographies and autobiographies of pilots and soldiers. At the time they were in their late 40's to mid 50's.

Anyone who knows ANYTHING about WWII aircraft, air combat, and tactics knows that this movie is PUTRID.

The high ratings come from those who must be both very young, and ignorant.

It's getting almost exhausting listing everything wrong with these bad independent films portraying the war that have been produced in the last ten years or so and trying to think of different ways to describe them. It's also kind of exhausting making myself sit through each one, which I can't always do, in all honesty.

This one is different from most in its category (low budget, unknown filmmakers, no military advisor, World War II), in that I did sit through it, and it was based on a story that involved flying rather than the war on the ground. In that aspect, I assume that this one involved a higher budget, though that money definitely didn't go to ensuring that the American airplanes were painted with invasion stripes like every Allied plane had after the invasion of Sicily, nor did it go into the costume budget. One of the American airmen had a rank insignia on his shirt that had three chevrons of a sergeant, but there was an eagle under the chevrons that looked like the eagle on the modern-day U. S. Army specialist (E-4) rank insignia. I knew that I was in for low quality when they used a made-up German-English hybrid word (Wulfe-Hound) in the prologue.

The worst things about this one were the logistics of the story and the equipment. The Germans had modern hunting knives instead WWII-era military knives, and the Americans somehow found M1 rifles and the ammo for them in the German airbase in Southern France. Oh yeah, and the speed of the planes was amazing! In the last scene, the B-17, B-25, and the Bf-109 all made it from Southwestern France to England in just a few minutes. In fact, the whole story takes place during daylight within a single day. I won't comment on the B-25 dogfighting with the Bf-109. I could go on and on, but I promised myself I wouldn't.

Nevertheless, I think the actors did a pretty good job with what they were given, I must say. If you're someone who likes movies with action and pilots who cry when they find their KIA wingmen on the ground, and don't pay attention to the impossible and highly unlikely elements of the story, this film should be pretty enjoyable for you.

Great film! It was different from your typical WW2 movies which was a refreshing change for me. I loved the Indiana Jones feel it had to it. Definitely recommend giving it a watch!

Sure, there's things to be critical about. Yes, the combat was not realistic as other reviews stated. But if you want an anti-Nazi flick with maybe a hint of Chuck Norris and decent ariel combat thrown in, then it's pretty cool. The ending was feel good American heroism, if you're into that.

The movie is so unbelievable when you are watching it you are scratching your head going who the hell made it... It's stupid, the soldiers dodge bullets with impunity and can litterally stand up in the face of machine guns, tanks, being outnumbered 20 to 1 and absorb all the bullets hiding behind a wooden cart or a motorbike yet they can't get shot.. but can effectively wipe out the whole German division.. acting is shocking, story is terrible . Wish I could get a refund for my rental.