Oleg Grigoryev said:
Yea... but the book was fun to read. And at least, according to preview I saw, computer graphics was finally good enough.
There are only few episodes with computer graphics in "PQ17".
And during watching of "PQ17" I constantly though that I could make it better...
Also it is made in old Soviet style - Western Allies are shown badly, Soviet civil sailors of transport ship of "PQ17" made all feats which in reality were made by Western Allied sailors, Germans are real "baby-eaters" here, crew of one U-boat three times shot surviving crews of sunk ships for time of movie ...
Also there are many strange mistakes which are seen for anyone who knows military history in enough scale.
For example, in first dates of June of 1942 US sailor speak about combats in Stalingrad direction but in that time Stalingrad was deep rear of USSR and nobody knew that this place will be so famous after August of 1942...
Other example, in the end voice of announcer spoke that movie is devoted to Soviet, US, British and Polish sailors of transport ships which took pat in northern convoys. But announcer forgot to say about Canadian, New-Zealand, Australian, Belgian, Norwegian and other nations sailors... It is strange...