Overrated shallow story

Rating: 5/10 (15 March 2020)

I watched 1917 yesterday. The storyline in this motion picture is so thin and shallow that it's offensive to an intelligent human mind. I get it, German soldiers always have to be portrayed in Hollywood movies as the bad ones, but in this one, they are pictured as blind drunkards and straightforward morons. Those poor two English soldiers run like crazy for two hours around the place in this movie, Germans shoot at them like forty times and always miss. The scenes are unrealistic, a German sniper in higher ground shooting seven rounds at one of the main heroes of the story, and missing every time? Common! There is also the scene where a Samaritan French lady helps the English soldier and cares for his wounds, so stereotypical that it hurts to watch. On the good side, the film builds up and holds tension, mostly because it was cut as if it were shot in one go. Summary: not recommended.