Implausible Military Story

Rating: 1/10 (12 January 2020)

The whole military basis of this story is FALSE.
If a general had needed to get an important message to a regiment facing a massacre he would have had a plane fly over the regiment and drop a message attached to a streamer so it could be picked up. Relying on 2 corporals to walk many miles through known enemy territory has a zero percent chance of success, as everyone would have known.
Front-line trenches of the 'Devons' were constructed by machinery for the movie as these broad trenches could never have been dug by a small group (1600).
No attempt made to explain why so many men were insane enough to put themselves in these crazy, high-death situations. God, king & Country only go so far - perhaps, they were infected with Male-Madness: aka Testosterone?