Great cinematography but lacking

Rating: 5/10 (13 January 2020)

First of all, I thought the new way of filming the movie was very well executed and will now be copied many times. The issue for me was by using this technique throughout the whole movie, it took away from other aspects on what it could have shown.
Maybe I went in with the wrong mindset, I wanted to see some action and depiction of trench warfare. What I got, wasn't that at all, in fact apart from a 20 second shot towards the end there was no warfare.
This was not in the same league as Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers, they were full of drama and action. 1917 was simply dull in comparison.