Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
Tom Selleck stars without a moustache as Dwight Eisenhower, supreme commander of the allied forces poised to invade mainland Europe in this TV movie. While the English channel is not that wide planning to get 2 million men into occupied Europe was a massive achievement and it is easy to see why someone would want to make a film about the man behind it all.
There are two ways that the film makers could have gone with this project, the first is dealing with the nuts and bolts of planning an executing the most complex military operation ever but just a few key events are touched on. The other way to focus a film would be on the men behind the operation and their characters however this is a poor character study as no mention is made of the close relationship or affair Ike had with a female member of his staff. All in all there is nothing in this film that you could not have picked up without a rudimentary knowledge of history and no insights provided into those behind the events.
2/5 a real lightweight effort.
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