Reviews Too Late: Max Manus (2008)

Fearful, apparently, that American audiences might not know that Max Manus was a celebrated Norwegian resistance fighter, the American release is subtitled MAN OF WAR, so everyone will think the film is about a race horse.Max Manus was the most expensive film ever made in Norway, and is based on Max's two autobiographical works, It Usually Ends Well, and It Gets Serious.Max had an adventurous life, leaving sch0ol at 15 to sail to South America.  The film picks up his life in 1939, after he...