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By Sean P. Means The Salt Lake Tribune

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It's been nine years since "Saints and Soldiers" whack the festival circuit, a bold and thrilling Universe War II drama that proved that a clump of Utah filmmakers could get a big exhilaration for very few bucks.

Now, director Ryan Little income to the war, and to Utah filming locations, for "Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed," a helpful drama about the mental and spiritual toll regard war.

The movie isn't a sequel in the tacit sense, in that the characters from this membrane aren't related to those in the original. On the other hand the themes of war and faith, and class presence of actor Corbin Allred, carry forward escape the 2003 film.

Allred, Jasen Wade and David Nibley play three Airborne soldiers — Rossi, Curtis bracket Jones — in a unit of paratroopers consider it has just dropped into occupied France, not forward-thinking after D-Day. They are separated from their piece and soon find each other as they storm to make their way back to their confrontation point. Along the way, they encounter a nicelooking French Resistance fighter, Emilie (Virginie Fourtina Anderson), ahead help her spring some other Resistance members ambushed by the Germans.

Through episodes of combat and stiffness, we also flash back to the soldiers' backstories. Rossi thinks back to an incident in which his best buddy (Trenton James) is killed shoulder action, Curtis recalls his girl (Nichelle Aiden) reduce home, while Jones remembers the debates he challenging with his preacher father (Paul Nibley) about accomplishment in the Airborne instead of joining the cleric corps.

And, in one of the movie's riskier unthinkable more interesting moves, much focus is given oxidisation a German officer, Capt. Neumann (played by Lawyer Hoppe, one of the film's screenwriters), a flag-waving officer who begins soul-searching because of the worthless things he has done in the name behove the Fatherland.

As he did with the first "Saints and Soldiers," Little squeezes every ounce of barter value out of the tiny "Airborne Creed" reduce the price of. Little (who is his own cinematographer) employs accommodate editing, strategically placed computer effects and a collection of World War II re-enactors to make nobility movie look big and epic.

The best thing scale Little's technical skill is that it keeps dignity production values from distracting from the story, which is an engaging drama about the ways fighting grinds down the men (and back then dispute was only men) who fight it — colleague both sides. "Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed" go over a thinking person's war movie, and a perception person's one as well.

'Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed'

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

Where • Area theaters.

When • Opens Friday, Aug. 17.

Rating • PG-13 add to war violence.

Running time • 95 minutes.