Film of the Decade?

Rating: 10/10 (3 February 2020)

Extraordinary stuff, put together to seem like one continuous shot with the camera dancing rings around the characters. It is virtually impossible to see any cuts, the whole thing, apart from a fade-out/ fade-in two thirds the way through, appears to happen in two hours of real-time.
The script is intelligent and loaded. "When you give the orders (to abort the attack) to Colonel Mackenzie, make sure there are witnesses. Some people like to fight.", the settings are astonishing, the camerawork remarkable. And the story is riveting. The sequence where the protagonist runs 300 yards across the field of advancing soldiers must be one of the great sequences in movie history.
It is difficult not to wax lyrical about this film
It's clear to see why this won Best Dramatic Film at the Golden Globes, and it now seems destined to win the 2020 Best Film Oscar, too ( a week away at time of writing). Certainly a second Oscar must be a formality for Sam (American Beauty) Mendes as director.
Alas, I had hoped for an Oscar win for Quentin Tarrantino. Unless the Acadeny has an attack of sentimentality at ignoring the great Tarantino for so long, that is a forlorn hope.However, I'll bet on him getting his THIRD screenplay Oscar.
Film as a creative art form, despite the plethora of Disney remakes and Star Wars rehashes, is alive and well.