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Int’l Critics Line: Todd McCarthy On Timur Bekmambetov’s ‘V2. Escape From Hell’

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V2 Escape From Hell plays like an old-fashioned, vibrantly propagandistic 1950s World War II thriller about how a daredevil Russian aviator thwarted Hitler’s last-gasp attempt to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat during the final desperate months of combat.

Visually, thanks to ever-advancing CGI, this is a pretty convincing display of vintage aeronautic action that would have been very tough to recreate today using actual planes.

War story and gamer aviation fanatics should eat this up.For the record, I watched it in the old-timey oblong format, which I would rather vigorously argue is the way to go since the main stars here are airplanes, one of many objects left out of Fritz Lang’s remark in Godard’s Contempt, that “CinemaScope is

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