Total RUBBISH. From someone who knows.

Rating: 1/10 (29 January 2020)

This film is RUBBISH.
Anyone with an ounce of military know-how would also know this.
There is so much wrong with this film I could write over 2 sides of A4.
But, apart from the dreadful inconsistency and ridiculous lack of anything resembling military practice WHY would only a pair of men be sent to deliver such an important message?
They watch aeroplanes (instead of getting on with their task) and one has to think (if one has at least one brain cell) why an aeroplane was not sent to land behind the British forward line and deliver the message?
If a German 'plane can be shot down in flames and the pilot survive the crash AND survive the fire AND kill a messenger then a Brit pilot could have flown to deliver the message. Far more believable.
War Horse was such a better film.
These two walk across a water-logged wasteland, enter a tunnel and then appear in a desert-like landscape. Was this Narnia? Who wrote this tripe?
When buried after a rat set off a trip wire, he is hauled out and his helmet is still on his head even though neither of them used their chin straps. They walked and talked - not tactical at all. They entered buildings instead of boxing around them. The last chap engaged a sniper (very poorly) and then entered the darn building. Did he use his grenades that were made such a fuss of at the beginning? NOooooo! He risked the outcome of the mission (saving 1600 men to have a duel). I had to stop watching for a while at this point. The raid he was supposed to stop was to start at dawn and yet with the sun up he sat down and listened to a soldier singing. Please... Give me a break. And throughout the film he had the chance many times over to shout his message to stop the attack, but he did not do this. He had to deliver it to the Colonel. Really? He would have told everyone he met in reality (a) so the message got through if he died (b) because the message would have spread by word of mouth. HOW did the message survive the torrential river scene? How did the paper it was written on survive for that matter? As I say; this film was RIDICULOUS. He even dried off very quickly. I have only pointed out a FEW of the points that made this farcical. WHO has been writing these good reviews? Have they watched:
War Horse
American Sniper
13 Hours; the secret soldiers of Benghazi? True stories, well told and worthy of airing.
This 2 hour INCREDULOUS mess is an INSULT to any soldier and certainly an insult to the poor souls that fought and died in WWI.