Good but not great

Rating: 6/10 (29 January 2020)

I sort of enjoyed this ... more or less. Interesting story, good production values and intense at times. I wasn't there but at no stage did I get the impression that this was an accurate representation of what it was like to be there. Maybe there was too much unspoiled green grass, where I had an expectation of seeing a battlefield or bomb craters. The contrast between fighting scenes to surreal peaceful country landscapes continually nagged at me as not to be relied upon. The overall impression I had, was having someone else's idea of humility packaged in such a way, to mask over what I sensed was a compromised movie. Compromised in the sense, that here is a story that might have been profound, were it not for lots of ideas that I suspect were half developed.