this is a masterful movie

Rating: Null/10 (11 March 2020)

1917 is an unique epic World War I story. Unlike other classical war time movies, it's not an ordinary heroism story but the thrilling, hellish horror of a war story. A very honest. The soldiers are brave but modest. Main characters are not showing gorgeous heroism like some other classic war movies to consolidate audience feelings but also main characters honorable spirits never yielding.
The heroes are two Bristish soldiers Schofield and Blake is tasked to an impossible mission by cruel commander, to carry a hand delivery message to an isolated battalion which prepares for an attack which will end with German army trap. The odyssey of two soldiers goes through horrors and the violence of war, the mud and the rotten corpses, rats, skulls, in the cold dark Rolling inside bomb pits, sniper fires at the barbed wires, deadly outraged enemies.
Director Mendes made this film based with some of his grandfathers memoirs, strongly giving antiwar messages. Also casting is good, for example at the end, the soldier met with war loving commander (acted by Benedict Cumberbatch). It's nonsense to say war scenes are good, but frankly cinematograhically, pictures of the spectacular battlefields is excellent. This masterful film will be a new standart at war films category.