Raw and Anxiety Inducing

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2019)

This movie definitely did everything right for portraying the raw emotion felt in a war. There was no romanticism or "war glory" just young men afraid of what to do next. The audience is put through a journey with the soldiers and a weight, brought on from all the tension created, was lifted off at good moments.
A music score's job is to induce emotion from the audience. It did just that wonderfully, bringing the audience to the edge of their seat with their hearts beating at the intense parts.
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of movies that have war in the main focus, but this movie was a masterpiece. Making the enemies faceless with little autonomy put us in the minds of the soldiers and made us understand how they must have felt being drafted into a war in which they have to kill others just to survive. It made us feel the deep seated fear they felt whenever planes neared them.
Overall amazing movie. It would be a 10 if I were more into these types of movies