This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This is one of the most chilling and emotionless depictions of the french resistance during World War 2 ever put to film.You expect to see ruthlessness from the Nazis shown in this two and a half hour raw representation of 1940s resistance underworld but it's the allied sympathisers whose true colours shine through. The monochromatic palate and the undeniable 1960s filming style reflect the lack of remorse the cold killers of the central "protagonists" posses.The whole film feels like a crisp morning with interspersed action emphasised by the random quick zooms that creates tangible tension. This reminds us of the overwhelming fascist presence and the immediacy for retaliation that this requires.I would highly recommend this film to those who enjoy international films or love period pieces that truly deliver in all aspects in which they require to create a film that keeps you on edge for it's entire duration.

These resistance people did not do one thing throughout the whole movie to cause damage or inflict casualty to their occupying forces. They were constantly on the run/hiding from their enemies, and ended up in jail more than they could stay out of trouble to carry out their "resistance" work. They were burdens to each other and ended up killing each other... This is not a good movie about the real French resistance forces. Maybe the writer just wrote about his own narrow/limited experience, which is definitely not the whole representation of this subject.

Nowhere in this film is the Cross of Lorraine, the symbol of WWII French resistance, mentioned or even displayed. Obviously,this is not a Hollywood movie but as close to reality as it gets on film. I grew up on French underground movies like "Joan of Paris" and, coincidentally, "The Cross Of Lorraine" and they were entertaining. They had identifiable heroes.'The Army Of Shadows" was for me a whole different way of looking at the resistance movement. I know I am late weighing in but I was so impressed by the way in which director Melville approaches the subject. I learned he was a member of the movement during the war and he is telling it as an 'insider'. His version is marked by desperation, betrayal and paranoia and actors portraying people united by a common enemy and they are, above all, ordinary. Ordinary people with ordinary faces who do heroic things because they are patriots - a dying breed in 2015. A terrific film which is staying with me and I thought it was fascinating for the reasons mentioned.

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.A year ago (2014) I had never heard of this Melville character, with the only person by that name is my world being the "Moby Dick" author. Now, a year has passed and I have seen just about everything this guy has directed. Although he does not seem to be well-known, he is critically acclaimed -- all his films rate highly on IMDb and most are available from the Criterion Collection.Whether war, or gangster or noir, or... a pretty decent variety of genres, he has a style that uses color very nicely, without smothering us in it. It's not Argento or Greenaway, but just enough color to be enticing without being the focal point.