I love this movie so much

Purely Joyful Movie!

Absolutely Fantastic

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This was a very emotional movie, and it was very well done, with an unforgettable ending. There was one small mistake, but the point of this movie is to manipulate the emotions, not to get every scientific fact correct, so I still gave it a 10/10. In one scene, the soldiers are going swimming, and shells enter the water and explode above them. They are very close to the explosions, close enough to have a solder be hit by shrapnel at speeds fast enough to cut him. Considering water's high viscosity, they must also be very close to the pressure wave generated by the explosion. On land, the shrapnel is more dangerous than the pressure, as air has low viscosity and is also highly compressible, meaning that the blast wave will disperse relatively quickly and with not much force. However, water is not anywhere close to as compressible as air, and so the pressure wave underwater would compress a human's air-filled cavities, such as lungs, in such a way that it would spell out certain death for the human. Once again, this is a movie, and I am holding it to very high standards. The pointI still think that this is an excellent movie, and I highly recommend it, unless you have a very short attention span. It is a bit slow. The ending really is one of the best.

I hadn't seen this seen this movie for only twenty years, where I do remember seeing it at the drive in, when I was twelve. It was on with The Kentucky Fried Movie, which me and my folks left early in that one. Coming to watch Gallipoli again, I was surprised by just how much I enjoyed it. I've never been one for these kind of films, save for the Vietnam ones. Gallipoli is the exception. And I think by now, we have enough of Gallipoli, being sensualized or glorified through mini series, what not. But it was a horrible war, at much a cost. A lot of lives were lost. We follow two young men, competitors in many ways. The two become good friends, when they sign up for this horrible war. The opening dialogue, is a memorable quote I'll never forget. Mark Lee as one of the men, is one hell of a runner, the more serious of the two. Of course the other guy was Mel, his AFI nominated performance. He was very good, granted that. He contributed well to this film, partially a reason to see it. It's a shame Lee's career didn't head in the same path, one starring part in Crownies, some years back, as Todd Lasance's lawyer dad. The story moves well, from the before to the enlisting of this war, and what was required, Mel's character, struggling with trying to get a horse moving, which looks no easy feat, or this particular horse was just stubborn. Mel's character, Arty I think it was, looked like he didn't belong in this war, where Lee's zest to enlist, grew on him. The period of war is captured so well, with some frighteningly if incredibly tense moments, near the end, during the hell of war, the final frame, paused, at the sound of the whistle, where Mel buys it unforgettable. There's a so powerful duration before that on the war field, with men sweating, under attack, you almost feel your there. This, being the first film about this war of great losses, for some reason is just entertaining and absorbing, and I don't know what it is. It's because, instead of just being a whole film of life on the battlefield, we go into the lives of these young men, before making that choice, that could even see em die, or live. It was the way the story was handled, some nice R and R scenes, that sees the two on their journey, before we reach the remaining part of film, in combat. Too we have some humorous touches, where Gibson's character really attributed here. I remember my folks being disappointed about this one. Gallipoli has a special magic about it, which makes it stand unique to all the other films of this type. Besides just being based on war, it's the other things I've mentioned, added qualities, that's makes it the movie more appealing and attractive.

Don't continue reading if you do not want to know how movie ends. I was drawn to this movie for the sound track, Mel Gibson and the historical significance. It was entertaining for cinematic reasons, but movie was weak because the characters lacked intelligence. Particularly the 18 year old who stated his excitement at the eventual combat he would engage in at Gallipoli. He stated that it was an 'adventure' as he wrote his letter home. What adventure? He had already trekked across Australia and seen the Pyramids, culture in Egypt. The only thing waiting for him in combat was a bullet. That is exactly what he got. He gives himself a pep talk before he runs into the 3rd and final wave of attack on an enemy that had already wiped out two waves of Australians completely with machine guns. He even dropped his gun so he could run faster to the enemy. What was he expecting when he got there? A kiss? Mel Gibson's character wasn't any smarter. If i ever watch this again it will be the music playing and the video blacked out.

One of those Paradoxes. A Beautiful War Film. But of course the Movie is much more than a War Movie. It is about Male Bonding, Friendship, Sacrifice, Patriotism and most of All the Futility that was World War One. Along with such Great Films as All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Paths of Glory (1957) this is Another Example of what can Only be Described as the Fog of War Blinding the Commanders and Removing any Sense that is Common in Everyday Thought.The Film's Finale Portrays this Trench Warfare in a Gripping Third Act that Punctuates the Poetry Displayed in the First Two Thirds with its Excellent Cinematography and Lush Warm Colors. It is Deliberately Paced and Unfolds as Character Studies of Australian Youth Plucked from Their Prime and Placed in a Hell-Hole on the other side of the World.There may be a Misstep or Two like an Occasional Synthesizer Intruding on the Organic Beauty of the Film, or a Lopsided, Misplaced Nationalistic Conceit at the End (that the Director now acknowledges), but Overall this is Fine Filmmaking and is also Footnoted as an Early Career Starter for Director Weir and a Virtually Unknown Mel Gibson.The On Location Scenes in Egypt also Add a Layer on Top of this Already Well Textured Film that is a Fine Production All Around.