one of the best

Rating: 10/10 (25 August 2000)

A very realistic and depressing view of war as seen through the eyes of a young man who enlists to go off to fight "the Great War" for the fatherland. His naiviete formed by the professors of his school he enlists with his buddies and soon discovers the horror of war first hand. As Paul, brilliantly played by Lew Ayres, becomes a war weary vet he realizes that the war has no purpose and no victory or good can come from it. This movie was very controversial in the US and Germany where the author was from and fought for in WWI. All Quiet is one of if not the finest anti war movie ever made and was a foreteller of a greater and more devastating war to come.. On a scale of one to ten..all quiet gets a 10