The Golden Globes got it wrong this year.

Rating: 7/10 (10 January 2020)

I wanted to like "1917," but it did very little for me. Among my issues with it:

For the first hour, the camera work repeatedly gave me motion sickness. That has never before happened to me at a movie.

The CGI is horrible.

To call the characters one-dimensional is to be charitable. They're not even characters so much as game pieces.

The suspense scenes did not fill me with suspense; the scenes depicting acts of humanity struck me as emotionally manipulative.

If delivery of the message is so important, why send two inexperienced corporals on foot instead of dispatching a pilot to fly the message to the front?

Who milked the cow? And how did her milk magically become drinkable between the udder and the bucket?

Since Corporal Schofield spent so much time immersed in a river, how did the letter he was carrying stay dry enough to be legible to Colonel MacKenzie?

And don't be fooled by Benedict Cumberatch's being second billed. He appears on screen for all of three minutes.
"1917" is not a bad movie. But with all the hype and advance praise (not to mention its two Golden Globes), I was expecting much better than this poorly written (though beautifully photographed) cliche fest.
Sorry, Golden Globes, you got it wrong this year. Best Picture should have gone to THE IRISHMAN, and Best Director to Martin Scorsese. Here's hoping the Oscars won't repeat your mistakes.