A very well-done, emotional film.

Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2007)

'All Quiet on the Western Front' is an amazing movie about World War I, but on a larger scale, about all war and how what it brings is pain, death, and disillusionment. The transition that the boys make in the film--from schoolboys who are delighted and cheering at the thought of war to embittered, hardened soldiers who only want to go home before they die.
The battle scenes shook me more than several of the more gory, explosion-riddled war scenes that I have seen. When the French are advancing on the Germans, and they come charging across the field only to be picked off one by one by machine guns, they are nothing more than targets. It is a frightening mentality that is shown, when all the soldiers could concentrate on was bullet--man dead. Bullet--another man dead. Another, and another.
The ending was perfect for this movie. The acting was a little faulty at times, but the rest of the film more than made up for it. 'All Quiet on the Western Front' does an amazing job of showing the feelings experienced during war. A must-see antiwar movie.