One of the best movies of all time

Rating: 10/10 (5 January 2000)

Absolutely amazing. This film destroys all notions of "dulce and decorum" for war. Remarque's story is devastating, showing boys become men all too soon on the front, only to die at too young an age. Even worse, he shows the vicious cycle--younger and younger boys are being sent to the front, all with the same illusion that Paul and his friends left with. Paul tries to find his lost innocence throughout the film, but he can never regain it. He can barely regain anything of what he was before leaving for the war.
All Quiet on the Western Front is more adept than most movies in showing the grit and grime of war in one of the most horrific wars of recent history, World War I. However, despite the fact that the movie is about Germans in WWI, there is something universal to the plight of these soldiers.

All in all, the film is tragic yet extremely moving. The film is well made, well acted, and well written. This is a war film that looked beyond the aura of glory to really get down to the raw realities.