the lack of budget, relative to Dunkirk at least, is glaring in the aerial dogfights, and the score is too maudlin and on the nose, but director David Blair navigates the whole thing through the storm with watchable competence
it's an old-fashioned boy's own tale, with the accent on boys - an attempt to widen the focus to the women working behind the scenes backfires slightly...Still, the story of the Polish pilots deserves to be told
extraordinarily clunky CGI let this film down; This is, to all intents and purposes a pretty average WWII film, "Hurricane" will still appeal to war film buffs, but won't do much to appeal to a wider circle
a niche film for World War II buffs, Polish patriots and air display patrons. Not exactly subtle, but few war films are -- and it's hard not to get caught up in fighting these old battles
by Jamie East [The Sun (UK) ]
