Simply the best anti-war film ever!

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2004)

This film truly deserves the title anti-war movie! There are many films who have been advertised like that but they are just films about war or have a wartime background. Or try to be anti-war but aren't. "All Quiet on the Western Front" never gives one the feeling that the front is somewhere you want to be or that it is a place of great heroics. I have seen most of the famous war or anti-war movies, but with the exception of "Paths of Glory" not one of them ever comes close to this. We see here how young men get coaxed into volunteering to become soldiers by their teacher in school and we live with them in the trenches and one by one we die with them. Their is no heroism, but their is a lot of humanism in this film and that is the greatness of it. It is perfectly played and photographed too! There was no question for me but to give it a 10.