Looks great but who are they all?

Rating: 6/10 (14 February 2004)

This film had a great storyline, it had a good budget, it had a lot of talented actors taking part... but why oh why can't writers of war movies understand that if you you dress 100 18-30 year olds in the same clothes and give them the same hair cut and then stick helmets on them, they are going to be difficult to tell apart.
After watching the film i could only work out who about four characters were. There are simply too many people in the movie that you are supposed to get to know. If you don't know a character then you can't feel anything for them when they die or fall over sleep with someone's wife.
I mean don't movie makers think it's important for the audience to know who they are supposed to be watching?
Saying that the film LOOKED absolutely brilliant. Granted the story had already been written for them in history, but they did film it well and i could understand what each group of people was trying to do, what there individual objectives were. It had a very real feeling to it. The picture quality was very appropriate and there were some good metaphores.