After all war is war.

Rating: 9/10 (30 January 2010)

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT belongs among the best of the best war dramas. Oscar-winning directing by Lewis Milestone. A tense story that doesn't take a breath often. A group of friends join the army during World War 1 and after training sent to the Western Front. New recruits are forced to learn the ways of war...crawling in the muck and mud dodging gun fire, bracing for bombs and looking death in the face. Kill or be killed and asking why. What starts wars anyway. Friendships are made only to be lost to death. Surviving hunger to fight another day. Anti-war attitude screams out loud, with astounding war scenes that ties your stomach in knots. No question why this film won the Oscar for Best Picture.
A young Lew Ayres leads a massive cast that features: Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Russell Gleason, Harold Goodwin, Ben Alexander, Scott Kolk, William Bakewell and G. Pat Collins.