If this doesn't at least get 9,5 out of 10 score, something's going very wrong with your brain

Rating: 10/10 (1 February 2020)

No doubt, this is actually how you all supposed to experience war movie that I think Hollywood needs to set this as a standard of the highest order on how to film a story about two or more nations sending their youngsters in an unknown treacherous land to have them kill each other until the gods and goddesses of death leave no one behind to their eternal realm of nothingness. The weak and vulnerable side of humanity in the face of their uncertain fate despite being promised of everlasting but meaningless glory and fame that somehow, in a frightening way could relate to us to the point that we, instead of 'watching' it, we actually 'experience' the war itself by our own point of view. We were there, with Blake and Sco, as the ventured no man's land, the german booby trap, the filthy trenches, the abandoned ruined city, to reach another field of battle where every single of those brave but ignorant 1600 young soldiers are going to be executed by the enemy in the most brutal way possible in an armed conflict.
'1917' is basically 'Saving Private Ryan' remade with a sequence of long shots that the cinematographer intelligently put smooth transitions in between that we hardly realize that in some parts they actually change shots, giving us the illusion of one long shot for the full 1 hour 40 minutes from the beginning until the end credits (props to Roger Deakins). I certainly don't have any idea how Sam Mendes pulled this all of, how he made Dean-Charles Chapman and George Mckay endured such a long scripted act that gave us the impression of a real two young trained brave soldiers in the field of battle, this is definitely their best performance so far, not to mention about the beautiful shots of the terrains, how they prepared the set and the other actors to play on their own roles in the story at the precise moment to appear on the camera or interact with one of the main characters, this is definitely a magic at play here. One the two only movies I give a perfect score on IMDB (the other being 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'), a kind of movie that I need at least once in a year in the middle of the dull and mediocre money-making Hollywood products these days. Best of 2020 so far (It was released really late in my country, so yeah, 2020).