There was nothing great about the Great War

Rating: 10/10 (8 February 2010)

I won't summarize the film here since many others did. Let me simply stay that I saw this film when I was 20 and never again did I show disrespect to war vets. Never was film-making able to convey more powerfully the sheer horror, brutality and pointlessness of war, especially WWI.
It's easy to understand why was WWI much less portrayed in films than WWII or other wars. WWI was perhaps the most absurd, irrational and disgusting military conflict that ever was. Millions of young men were sent to deaths in pointless battles that had no names, producing no tactical nor strategical advantage of any kind.