10/10 for Technique and Cinematography... 4/10 for Story and Characterization...

Rating: 6/10 (13 January 2020)

It's an experience, certainly, and I do recommend seeing it in a good cinema.
Deakins was fantastic, absolutely, some stunning cinematography.
But I found the movie incredibly disappointing overall. Feels like a missed opportunity, a very interesting experiment that just does not quite work.
Most of the movie felt like a series of Call Of Duty cut scenes, a video game you had no control over, a really odd feeling, and some of the scenes were like a video game in content with reality stretched to almost breaking point.
To me it was an adventure movie rather than a 'war movie', much more like Indiana Jones than Saving Private Ryan... To relate it to another movie I felt it reminded me very much of The Revenant in story and style, but like that movie it felt rather empty to me.