2019 version of multiple war movies I've already seen, this time with louder music

Rating: 6/10 (17 January 2020)

I found the music in 1917 continually overpowering and intrusive, as if I were never trusted to observe and think or feel for myself, but had to be led.
While the English soldiers are very personalized, and shown as brave, committed, silly, noble, frightened, persevering, the Germans are portrayed as duplicitous and savage the only times they appear and are deceitful in their off-camera essence as well, setting traps large and small.
When English trucks become stuck in mud, do the English in general not know what to do? Did English military trucks in 1917 not carry cables?
Will reassures the French woman that he is English, not German - a woman in a cellar alone at night is going to be reassured to learn the nationality of the man holding a gun on her?
While talk about the movie seems centered on the device of a continuous take, the film actually seemed to me to be ticking off one war film cliche after another. I entered the theater ready for something novel and affecting, but within the first few minutes felt unimpressed and remained so for the rest of the picture.