Entertaining but lacks historical sense

Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2020)

Finally caught this film. Some fantastic, often surreal, cinematography. Acting was also on point. That said there were a few things that just didn't add up for me - maybe I just didn't set my autopilot to max level. The front lines, even during the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, did not have breaks in it - that would have been inviting disaster in itself; therefore, the need for these two to cross into no man's land, isolated from allied forces, and then into German-held zones, only to get to another part of the British front made zero sense. More, a pilot attempting to crash land would not aim for a building to smash into when there is vast open fields... After which, a full company of motorized British soldiers show up out of nowhere despite these two being at the highest level of alertness. When he winds up in the river, sopping wet with the papers containing the general's command to stand down, he arrives shortly after at the colonel with a dry, easily legible piece of paper. The better way to have handled that would be to have had the orders illegible, and the attack to go ahead, to illustrate the absolute absurdity of the war itself (for France and the UK, and later the US, had no business in joining the war to begin with - as it kicked off between Austria and Serbia, with Germany solely countering Russia joining on the side of Serbia). Though with all that said, the film was entertaining. Entertaining to the point of being worth a $20 or greater trip to the theater? Not quite. But, in my opinion, good enough to rent or to catch at the cheaper tier theaters.