Excellent cinematography, weak storybook

Rating: 6/10 (13 April 2020)

The film has an excellent screenplay - incredible scenes and one will recognize already at the beginning, starting with a single camera movement from a peaceful meadow to the cruel trench typical for the 1WW. The excellent screenplay is continued through the whole film.
However, for me it was a significant contrast to the storyline. It may sound strange, but the scenes were arranged too perfect for a war film. The storyline itself appeared to be fragmented and in many cases so unlikely. Finding milk in a bucket on a deserted place which will be used later in the film to prove the honesty of the main character, sudden appearance of a patrol behind the frontline, a rescued pilot that has nothing better to do than attack their rescuer and more of that. The excellent screenplay is for me 10/10 but it does not reflect the kind of the story and the storyline only gets a 4/10 due to fragmented scenes and unlikely events.