Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (10 January 2020)

I really did not expect this - the first half was excellent - gritty, bleak and conveying a real sense of the horror and mud slogging awfulness of trench warfare. Then it descended into ridiculous melodrama spliced with mawkish sentimentality. The sense of an urgent mission sang away in the wind and when a pristine letter was finally handed over after a torrential river scene all credibility was shredded. Photos perfectly preserved in a tin box too. Mark Strong's was the only outstanding performance which was also a sad surprise.