All the war's a stage

Rating: 9/10 (1 February 2020)

First couple of minutes in I didn't know what to expect from this movie but then I realized that it's going to be war that I haven't seen before. The whole movie shot in one take is not something I haven't seen before but a war movie - this is something I think everyone ought to see. 1917 is perfect from a director of photography, set designer and stunt coordinator point of view as well as a great challenge for all of the actors involved who had done their jobs splendidly. George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman are relatively new to the audience but after the great success of 1917 (which in my humble opinion is inevitable, multiple Oscars worthy and well deserved) the world will hear about them. My only weak point about this grand spectacle of a movie is if you take this one magical component that holds it all the whole movie would fall flat in comparison to other, much greater movies of its genre and would be claimed as one-dimensional and multidimensional at the same time. But it sure does make one fall in love with cinema once again.