2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Desertman84 Tom Selleck stars as General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the TV movie entitled,Ike: Countdown to D-Day. It follows the General in the three months leading up to the decisive invasion that would turn the tide of World War II toward the Allied powers.James Remar,Timothy Bottoms,Gerald McRaney and Ian Mune co-stars to play key supporting roles.It is directed by Robert Harmon.The D-Day invasion is the largest military operation of World War II.The TV movie opens with Winston Churchill appointing Eisenhower,better known as Ike, as the Supreme Allied Commander. He faces conflicts with British General Montgomery, American General George Patton, and French leader Charles de Gaulle.He must balance these men's egos as he organizes the risky but necessary military maneuver.Despite historical errors and inaccuracies,this TV movie is a very well done depiction of the events leading up to D-Day, headlined by one of the strongest performances of Tom Selleck's career. It manages to convey the sense of tension throughout every scene which is a testament to both the acting and the writing.

ma-cortes The picture concerns about the previous ninety days to the D-Day invasion , known as ¨Overlord operation¨. Dwight H. Eisenhower confronts problems and odds and designs splendidly the most sensational military operation of the history . He must deal and convince to the most prestigious world leaders as the intelligent Winston Churchill (Ian Munne) , an arrogant General Montgomery (Bruce Philips) , an obstinate General DeGaulle ; besides he resolves the complications on subordinates as a rebel General Patton (Gerard McRaney) or a General who publicly speaks about the operation . Ike is finely played by Tom Selleck who makes a brilliant speech explaining to various politicians and authorities , as the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth , the developing of the Normandy Landing , but he exposes the following : ¨Five beaches -codenamed Utah, Omaha, Gold,Juno and Sword- were selected as the landings points for the British and US Corps , the operation will be preceded by a month-long bombing campaign to disrupt communications , preventing reinforcements from moving quickly into the threatened area and destroy vital bridges and gun positions . The landing depended of the weather, when the forecast was cool, began the operation D-Day 6 June 1944 . The landings commenced at 0630 hrs, and by midnight 57.000 US and 75.000 British and Canadian troops and their equipment were ashore and the beachheads were being linked into a continuous front . The General Omar Bradley (James Remar) commanded US 1st Army ,a post he handled with considerable efficiency breaking out from the bridgehead . The German response to the landings was hampered by the damage done to their communications ,by a rigid structure which required a personal directive from Hitler before any significant move could be made and by belief that the landing the major Allied attack would come in the Pas of Calais,a belief fostered by Allied deception operations . Allied casualties during the day amounted to 2.500 killed and about 8.500 wounded.Allied air forces flew 14.000 sorties in support of the operation and lost 127 aircraft¨. This famous event from how was orchestrated the dangerous , risky landings maneuvers is well photographed by David Gribble and magnificently directed by Robert Harmon . This TV picture will appeal to history buffs . Well worth seeing .

MrGKB I tumbled to this one as part of a large pruning-out of a friend's DVD collection, and although this one won't be a keeper for my own library, it was still a worthwhile watch, if only for the novelty of Tom Selleck doing an extraordinary job of portraying Dwight D. Eisenhower.Mr. Selleck, to be totally honest, looks nothing like Eisenhower, even with his head and mustache shaved, but just as Gretchen Mol strutted her stuff to great effect in "The Notorious Bettie Page," Mr. Selleck rises to the occasion and embodies Ike with a remarkable verisimilitude that allows his audience to ignore the physical discrepancy. It is definitely one of Selleck's shining moments as an actor.The script has its problems, but this is no surprise in a talking heads story about the concerns of mounting the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. Certain events are shuffled about and compressed temporally, some are created out of whole cloth, and a few seem to be egregious mistakes (cf. Ike's chat with troopers of the 101st Airborne on the wrong day), but mostly it's all in service of the story. Within the context of a two hour made-for-TV docu-drama, it works. Complaint can be made about the portrayal of various persons, notably General Patton, Field Marshall Montgomery, and Charles DeGaulle (whose nose isn't nearly big enough), but these are all minor lights orbiting the main star, Ike. If nothing else, the film properly leads one to further exploration of the events chronicled; there is a wealth of information out there, needless to say.Selleck really does a bang-up job, reining in his Magnum P.I. persona almost completely to portray a man who not only had the weight of the world on his shoulders, but also carried its very fate in his hands. I think Ike himself would have been pleased.

Tabarnouche It's very difficult, for me, to understand those reviews that credit Selleck with a defining performance as Ike. His acting, intonation, enunciation, and body language were flat and unconvincing. Unless Ike was that dull himself, which does not seem to be the case, Selleck was a very disappointing casting choice.The main scenes that have stuck with me were the endless shots of Selleck lighting cigarettes and exhaling smoke during one-on-one encounters with Churchill and his staff members. Not since some of the early Nick Nolte films has anyone relied so much on empty gesture to compensate for a weak screen presence.But the film might be a must-see for history buffs. It reveals aspects of the invasion decision-making and execution process that, as far as I know, have not been adequately treated elsewhere.Just don't expect to come away from it inspired or feeling some connection with the Ike character. And you certainly won't come away impressed with the similarity that Selleck's interpretation bears to Eisenhower (as George C. Scott's did to Patton -- reportedly making even Patton's daughter forget she wasn't watching her father).