DOG FIGHT THE ENEMY FROM THE SKY AND THEN HELP HIM FROM THE BURNING COCKPIT

Rating: 6/10 (3 February 2020)

This movie wiped the board @ the BAFTA,I personally think the ENGLISH love themselves and it was a foregone conclusion.This movie failed to even entertain me let alone amaze me and I love war movies,this movie came across like a stage play to me,everything from the sets to the wardrobe was stage like as nothing looked authentic at all,this subject matter is easily award worthy but not in this case.a couple of silver spoon soldiers are awarded a mission because one of them can read maps at least that's what they said,me personally I would have thought any soldier would need this attribute given the circumstances,anyway they set off across enemy lines on foot and they were promised they enemy is gone : )...sloppy muck,rats and dead bodies are the enemy as they waltz through the land unscathed but for a trench collapse,next they holed up @ a derelict farm and silly attempts at homely values through family stories are pointless and time consuming,now a visual spectacle as they watch their comrades shoot down the enemy in a dog fight only to run to the rescue of the pilot who is burning in the cockpit (no fear of immanent explosion) ohhh the compassion for the enemy pays off as the pilot stabs one of them,how negligent of them.the rest of the mission gets even more irritating as we soon see their is no compassion for their own soldier as they leave him soldier on alone...silly dangers and escapes round this off and the finally has a couple of bombs go off along the trenches.NO ENEMY,NO WAR,NO BATTLES...was probably worse than DUNKIRK and neither is a war movie in my opinion....................