the best war movie you've never seen.

Rating: Null/10 (25 March 2006)

Man o Man, just finished watching this. The download was finally 100% completed when being hanged in Bitcomet at 85% for almost a fortnight. This is one Stanley Kubrick movie which was eluding me for so much time. Haven't yet seen Spartacus and Barry Lyndon, which are the only two left to see. How many films have you seen, or war films for that matter, in which every scene is so powerful and shot with glorious perfection. Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan and other blah blah, but this movie delivers, captures human emotion with such fervor and affectively that you'll be surprised that this movie was made in 1957 about the infamous trench warfare. Kirk Douglas as Col. Dax was excellent, cannot imagine anyone else playing that role, not even James Mason. Remember, a war movie is not always about a soldier killing another shot in a gory manner. What it is about is what this movie's all about.