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Watchable. Comparable to "Game Night" but more intriguing and actually amusing at times. I would burst out laughing e.g. when they knocked over the priest at the ceremony, when a cleaner rattled so loud while cleaning he rendered an office conversation impossible or when an infatuated guy couldn't hide his elation talking to his dream woman: "Is your husband dead? Really?!" The core storyline was gripping from minute one till the very end. Music heavy on the 80s, e.g. Beastie Boys with "Shake Your Rump", Ice T, Boys II Men, Ozzy Osbourne, Naked Raygun, Pixies etc. The whole thing still is not exactly hilarious but inspiring and returning faith in adulthood - you can still have fun and still have true friends. The original tag players - older and fatter but strikingly nice and every bit just as playful - are shown right after the plot is concluded. Some ridiculous song is sung by the actors along with the end credits. 

KURIER (THE RESISTANCE FIGHTER)

Director Władysław Pasikowski gives freedom to everyone he cooperates with, i.e. actors or cinematographers and is said to be a true gentleman. What can we expect in the upcoming Polish movie? Long shots, more like in the theatre than in the film. More female roles than in his earlier productions. The movie hero Jan Nowak Jezioranski couldn't use the parachute well, didn't know how to cycle - was a hero but not a superhero. The cinematography has been inspired by paintings of the time (WW2) since photographs were only black and white. 

Info for Polish people reading it: the Warsaw Rising Museum is hosting a casting for the roles of insurgents and AK soldiers for people aged 18-24 on 7th August.