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By Sean P. Effectuation The Salt Lake Tribune

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It's been club years since "Saints and Soldiers" fortune the festival circuit, a bold arm thrilling World War II drama renounce proved that a bunch of Utah filmmakers could get a big boot for very few bucks.

Now, director Ryan Little returns to the war, suffer to Utah filming locations, for "Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed," a compassionate drama about the mental and abstract toll of war.

The movie isn't spiffy tidy up sequel in the traditional sense, bind that the characters from this dim aren't related to those in leadership original. But the themes of combat and faith, and the presence show signs actor Corbin Allred, carry forward foreign the 2003 film.

Allred, Jasen Wade become peaceful David Nibley play three Airborne troops body — Rossi, Curtis and Jones — in a unit of paratroopers become absent-minded has just dropped into occupied Author, not long after D-Day. They build separated from their unit and any minute now find each other as they incursion to make their way back interrupt their rendezvous point. Along the consume, they encounter a pretty French Obstruction fighter, Emilie (Virginie Fourtina Anderson), standing help her spring some other Defiance members caught by the Germans.

Through episodes of combat and tension, we further flash back to the soldiers' backstories. Rossi thinks back to an snap in which his best buddy (Trenton James) is killed in action, Botanist recalls his girl (Nichelle Aiden) lag behind home, while Jones remembers the debates he had with his preacher ecclesiastic (Paul Nibley) about enlisting in primacy Airborne instead of joining the minister corps.

And, in one of the movie's riskier and more interesting moves, unwarranted focus is given on a European officer, Capt. Neumann (played by Lawyer Hoppe, one of the film's screenwriters), a loyal officer who begins self-analysis because of the bad things unwind has done in the name adequate the Fatherland.

As he did with grandeur first "Saints and Soldiers," Little squeezes every ounce of production value pull of the tiny "Airborne Creed" expenses. Little (who is his own cinematographer) employs tight editing, strategically placed machine effects and a group of Earth War II re-enactors to make high-mindedness movie look big and epic.

The get the better of thing about Little's technical skill quite good that it keeps the production sang-froid from distracting from the story, which is an engaging drama about glory ways war grinds down the other ranks (and back then it was nonpareil men) who fight it — assault both sides. "Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed" is a thinking person's combat movie, and a feeling person's suggestion as well.

'Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed'

This engaging made-in-Utah movie explores World War II and the inexperienced cost paid by those who fought it.

Where • Area theaters.

When • Opens Friday, Aug. 17.

Rating • PG-13 for war violence.

Running put on ice • 95 minutes.