Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Awesome Movie

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Okay it was not that bad. However, I am disappointed with the standard old interpretations of the characters. The German trench commander had the obligatory scar down the left cheek, he spoke in quick mono-syllable orders.The young private being torn a new one because he was scared and not a man by a man who had just become so mentally scarred that he could not think any different.And then the story "at home"... really, that added 0% to the film.90 minutes of my life wasted.I think that what was shown in the battle field was a very good representation of what it was like.

Really enjoyed this film and I'm not much of a war person. It was a really refreshing take on a moment in our history, focusing on the very personal intimacy of mate-ship among soldiers, as opposed to the fanfare of explosions, gunfire and whiz bang visual effects.It was nice to see a war film that peeked into the lives of the women left at home as well. When I think of the world wars and tragic loss of men involved in the conflict, I must admit I've never contemplated the hardships that women endured back on the home front.This film offers a glimpse into what I've learnt to be an extremely common issue women were faced with whilst their men fought on the front lines. The limited options and primitive medical practices available to women back then are a frightening realisation of how helpless females must have felt living in that era. To have little to no control over their lives, let alone the ability to remedy bad choices is profoundly confronting.A great take on a very sad era.

I'm seriously so impressed with the production. There were a lot of explosives and the actors actually performed their own stunts. It's not a huge budget movie but they had done so well for what they had with the limited money and time. The story itself is very heartbreaking.My favorite part of the movie was the prison scene when the character of Wilkins strangling Eve Rose, knowing that Eve was his man's wife who died in his arms during the war and also Eve was the reason why his own wife was dead when he came home. I couldn't breathe while watching the expression on his face and my tears wouldn't stop running. I could feel his pain. It's so heartache and contradictory in the same time. Well done over all!

Every war movie cliché lives on in this waste of money and time. They're all here -- the strong but self-questioning hero, the cowardly kid soldier who finds courage only to (surprise!) get killed, the weedy English officer, the cruel German one...Hammy acting, leaden dialogue and uninspired effects.As if that weren't enough, the script is full of anachronisms, as the characters talk and behave in ways that are utterly foreign to the world of 1916, but will be perfectly familiar to modern viewers.And the icing on the cake: plagiarism. Major scenes in this stinker shamelessly rip off Timothy Findley's 1977 novel The Wars, and the film made of it. (That movie wasn't great, but it's a damn sight better than this one.)So how bad is it, really? Bad enough that you'll wish you spent the time doing practically anything else than subjecting yourself to this loser.