Gripping!

Rating: 7/10 (12 January 2020)

I was a little apprehensive going to watch this film after watching the trailer and knowing who the director was (I wasn't the biggest fan of the recent James bond film spectre).
I was preparing myself for an overly dramatic and glorified war movie which in parts it was, but I must admit I thought they did a good Job! I liked how the movie was shot, it really felt as if I was accompanying the protagonists of the movie step by step. It conveyed a very intermate expirience between the protagonists and the viewer coupled with some thrilling and nailbiting cinematics causing me to pull off some grimising facial expressions throughout. I wasn't completely convinced with the acting, there's a particular scene involving Dean-Charles Chapman (lance cpl. Blake) that I wasn't too impressed with but maybe that's just me. I felt asif I was more emersed into George Mackey's character (lance cpl. Schoefeild) perhaps unfairly I found myself comparing their acting performances to Joaquin Phoenix's Joker as that was the last film I watched in the cinema xD they're two completely different films mind!
Overall - If you don't mind abit of an overly dramatic and glorified war movie and enjoy an intense thrilling cinematic expirience it'll be worth your while getting a cinema ticket! It's gripping from start to finish with some great shots. I still rate Hurt locker a better war movie but it's in there with the likes of Fury, black hawk down and saving private Ryan.