Overrated

Rating: 6/10 (21 March 2020)

I had high hopes for 1917......"even better than Saving Private Ryan" I heard people say. Nonsense. While it may be a technical triumph, the characters are boring, the acting from the two leads is poor, and the story is predictable. World War One involved a plethora of fascinating characters and events and was a truly paradigm-shifting moment in history......1917 is just a movie we've seen a thousand times before.....the tragic futility of war told via the experiences of a couple of generic cockney corporals with no personalities whose lives are valued at nought by pantomime villain officers that just want to send men over the top for the sheer fun of it....blah blah blah. In short, 1917 is a technically spectacular work which delivers a cliche and generic portrayal of the war.