Great technically but let down by story

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2020)

I had heard so many great things about this I couldn't wait to see it. By the end I was wondering what all the fuss was about.
It was going well up until Blake gets killed, the two soldiers going through no mans land, the German trenches and bunkers was compelling. But then we're supposed to believe the German pilot who had crash landed his plane on fire and was lying on the ground had overcome Blake and stabbed him. Come on.
Then out of nowhere a convoy of British troops turn up and give Schofield a lift, they drop him off and he starts crossing the bridge and almost immediately he comes under fire from a German sniper, are we supposed to believe the convoy just left him fend for himself? Anyway German sniper manages to miss his target with every shot but our man Schofield manges to shoot him with his third or fourth hanging from the bridge.
When he goes to check to see if the German is dead he gets shot or does he, all we see is him waking up in a pool of blood but no obvious wound. He's then chased by another soldier , he escapes through a door which must have been invisible to the German as he just runs past. Here he finds a French woman and a baby who has somehow managed to avoid capture by the Germans, luckily our hero had found some milk earlier.
After he leaves the woman and baby fend for themselves, he comes across two soldiers, he kills one but for some bizarre reason not the other, he drops his knife pushes him away and runs.
If it wasnt for the cinematography and the opening half hour I would have given it a 4, poor characters, plot holes and bland story.