Great camera work! Stupid storyline.

Rating: 5/10 (15 January 2020)

I was looking forward to this movie for a very long time. Within the first few minutes I was disappointed, because if something so important needed to be told to the front line a.) they could have sent a plane to the front line b.) if that wasn't an option they definitely wouldn't have only sent two low ranking soldiers without any protection to save 1,600 men. With that said, I was able to look past that for a while because the camera work was very cool. Eventually though it became ridiculous. Why would you pull an enemy pilot out of a plane that was shot down by your allies, and if you felt compelled to do so, why would you act like he's your long lost pal, and then act surprised that you end up getting stabbed by him. Whoops that means now the only other soldier with this extremely important message becomes immortal. The Germans can't shoot anymore, and after watching the German pilot kill his friend he thinks telling another not to scream would work. There are other things in this film that annoy me, but these are just unforgivable. Maybe mendes should have consulted with actual military experts to find out more plausible plot points. Still the camera shots were very cool. That's about it.