technically brilliant but with major inaccuracies

Rating: 6/10 (2 February 2020)

There's no denying the filmmaking in 1917 was visually good with the one shots in both the end and throughout the film done well and deserving of an Oscar.
However the rest of the film felt unsatisfying , rather than leaving me moved at the end I had a rather "oh" is that it , which to me is not what a war film should leave you with.
From the offset the A to B story felt like it contained a plethora of Unecessary celebrity cameos that had no real effect on the story and some obvious plot holes that brought me out of the film and back into reality, for example the cow and the one bucket of milk , I was expecting some kind of German army to surprise them as I thought the whole point was that they weren't long gone but no the cow was just assumed to have milked itself I suppose and be the only thing left standing in the farm that came out of nowhere. The main character then tells a German to shut up and let's him go when he's obviously going to shout to his friend for help , he then runs away leaving his attacker alive to shoot him which surprise surprise they also can't take a clean shot from 20 m away .
The ending also left me feeling unsatisfied with the obvious inaccuracies of the last shot and ending as You would have thought as he went over the trench first then standing up and running he would be an easy target for the Germans but he manages to get to the colonel without a scratch.
Furthermore the ending just seemed too straightforward , he went to send a message he got the message there , it was called off . There was nearly no changes to the plot or events which he had to overcome that lasted more than a few minutes and the ending rather than leaving me with a sense of the horrors of war like other war films had it left a rather "oh so it's done now" type feeling that the gimmick of one shots and technical filming could not cover .
Overall I think that this film had good technical filming and obviously the long shots were powerful but that does not mask the lack of storyline and unsatisfaction I felt whilst watching . I do think for filming it deserves awards but not for best picture.