It's strange to watch a war epic and think that what it could do with less of are the gravelly Liam Neeson speeches. But that is exactly what happens here.

Operation Chromite so bad it's almost spellbinding.

Creaky and clunky, weirdly reminiscent of big-budget prestige movies of years gone by such as The Longest Day, which used to always crop up on bank holiday TV.

It's hard not to feel a little underwhelmed by the familiarity of it all, and many viewers will yearn for the day when directors might try to do something different