To deliver a message in time of isolation You have to go through obstacles surviving by thinking outside of trenches

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2020)

This is a smart film that you expect battles like saving private Ryan but what you gets is an edge of your seat thriller the plays on you fear of what is around the corner this film plays like one long shot like birdman. The this feels like you are in the trenches going through barb wire. Dir mendez goes for an alternative to put a fresh take of the cost of war two soldiers get an impossible task blake and champan delivery a messages behind enemy lines and they know the Germany a laying a trap for a regiment to get there in broad day light to thousands of soldiers the story is fictional story but risky missions were not uncommon then
For soldiers to complete there mission must cross peak blown up muddy battlefields get through rat infested German bunkers. The swamps dodge planes fights face to face combat and snipers in raging city infernos..
A destroyed bridge near the bombed-out village of Écoust-Saint-Mein prevents the British lorries from crossing, so Schofield crosses alone on the remnants of the bridge. This draws an attack by a German sniper across so as the flares go Chapman races through bombed burnt building he races through the streets to avoid flares from Germans.
whilst surviving the climb up the berm, there is no sigh of relief, no respite from the fear of uncertainty. They survive to move forward to face more uncertainty.
It is a cinematographic feast for the eyes, long expansive shots that follow the protagonists as they execute their mission. It does not hide the horrors that existed in trench warfare, it shows them for their brutality and abundance
Watch if you will, but know there is no pleasure in watching and the film will grab you and the beginning and not let you go. Even though we know the outcome of WWI, there is no joy, there is no peace. Watch because it will allow you a glimpse at the horror and brutality of war; reflect on their service and sacrifice. Note, as we (the viewer) are "walking" through the trenches, glancing shots of the young soldiers shows them with flat affect, isolation, almost apathy; this is the face of "shell shock," what we know call post-traumatic stress disorder
Edge of your seat stuff
It will will an Oscar but it will have to share something with the joker this film is unique 10/10. great camoes from strong and cummberbatch