The Definitive War Film

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 2003)

While dated and with some very stiff acting (most of the films from this time are) "All Quite on the Western Front" still carries a powerful message. Trench warfare is hell...and all war is hell and that the survivors were casualties as well.
The war footage is very well done and quite graphic for its time. (Spoiler) Like the guy who is climbing the barbed wire fence and is it by a shell and all that is left are his hands clutching the barbed wire. Maybe this film even hinted at the war to come nine years later.
In any case if you consider yourself an aficionado of war films you will never truly be one until you see this film. It truly sets the tone for all the war films that came after it.