the audience applauded

Good start, but then it gets ruined

A different way of telling a story

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

I understand that the book was episodic, but that does not mean it translates into a good film that way.Poorly directed and acted, not to mention produced. How tough would it have been for the actors to at least have gotten haircuts? Not the best film about WW1. Not even close. Perhaps having one person being the producer, writer and director is not the best idea? The actors were not in the least convincing.Someone should have said "Whoa" before this was put together. Oh, and I wrote this review using the same disjointed style the director of this movie used. Do you think it made for a better review this way? I did not think so.

I write this review on Memorial Day 2008 and there's lots of talk on television and elsewhere about the sacrifice of soldiers in Iraq. In my opinion, those young women and men are giving their lives and their mental stability to an unnecessary cause created to satisfy the ego of a madman. But what about the soldiers in the Great War, the War to End All Wars - World War I? Those soldiers are the subject of Company K.William March was the penname for William Edward Campbell who, in 1933, published Company K which was hailed as a masterpiece by critics and writers alike and has been referred to as the American view of the hopelessness and brutality - just as effective and shattering as Erich Maria Remarque's classic anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front. March was a popular novelist and story writer of the 30's, 40's, and 50's. Today, his most well-know novel is The Bad Seed.March was a reclusive man who was hard to get to know. He suffered a number of nervous breakdowns - as they were called in his day - that were surely post traumatic stress episodes due to his experiences as a Marine in WWI. He died from a series of heart attacks in 1954 at the height of his writing career.The soldiers in Company K are not the great generals and leaders whose names have gone down in history but are the grunts who actually did the fighting and dying. They are not great heroes but just young men who are trying to survive the madness into which they have been injected. They are not idealized or romanticized. Some do bad things. Some are so scared they run. Some carry out insane orders. Some carry out inhumane orders. Most of those who survive go home to lead normal lives, but there are some who are never able to remove from their minds the horrors of deeds seen or deeds done.The film, Company K is not a great production. It's episodic but in a very choppy way. Is that the fault of the director or the editor? Who knows? But within each episode, the viewer is offered a realistic view of these young men caught in circumstances beyond their control. There is no glory - only guts.There are no well-known actors in this film. All are just good actors who do a good job at showing us all of the aspects of these men thrown together into the snake pit of battle.There are uncountable films about women and men in war. Some are extraordinary while some are really bad. Company K falls somewhere in the middle and it is surely worth a viewing in order to get to know some very human men.

Company K is an outstanding war film that tells a great story without resorting to clichés or stock characters. The story lines of the various members of the company weave a compelling tale of marines in World War I. They experience the discipline and training of boot camp and go off to war not expecting that death can come from unexpected places. For example, a sergeant and his squad are wiped out by an incompetent Lieutenant's order and a marine private is knifed by a boyish German prisoner while trying to play a trick on the prisoner.I read the book by William March and the movie was pretty faithful to the book. I recommend this movie to others.

Based on the novel by William March, Company K tells the story of Joe Delaney who is trying to write a book about his experiences during WWI. While writing about the others soldiers in his company, he remembers each of them through a specific incident that each was involved in. I was recently lucky enough to receive a preview disc of this film and I enjoyed it all, having been unsure what to expect after hearing that it was not a conventional war film. The film is not unconventional, however it is different in the way that it separates the different stories, using frames with each character name on to show who the following part of the story is focusing on. Although lacking the budget of major Hollywood releases, Company K contains many well-shot action sequences, which, combined with the scenes off the battle field create an interesting portrayal of the soldiers during the war. The most memorable moments include a plane attack, the shooting of prisoners and going over the top to find that the Germans aren't firing. Overall I found this an enjoyable film and is a must-see for fans of war films.