National Geographic Views + Battle Scenes = Horrid Mess

Rating: 1/10 (11 May 2017)

Everything is awfully wrong in this endless, 180 minute flick that seems like a dying serpent, slowly sleuthing along some moss, and then suddenly twitching in agony, and then getting to slow die again. Casting? Oops, how can that possibly happen when there is a really Huge bunch of first class, awesome actors, like Nolte, Clooney, Caviezel, Penn, Leto, Harrelson, Otto, Brody and Travolta among others, and then all of them deliver an awful mess of a film. The problem is vivid and loud - they play too curt, too brief, too short, there is No development, No depth, No hook. No main hero. Instead, we are suffering to watch ugly faces close-up and then watch a twitchy battle scene with all usual gore, blood, noise and brouhaha. This movie lacks the tragic fragility of The Longest Day, lacks the brutal honesty of Private Ryan, lacks the deep development of Battle Of Britain, lacks the excellent delivery of Bridge Too Far, lacks the exquisite accuracy of Schindler's List, lacks the poetic cruelty of The Pianist, it lacks every possible detail. It lacks all it can have. Instead, it gives us tons of unnecessary dialogues, then, and it becomes very annoying, the astonishingly beautiful nature scenes, and then drops it all into a shaky mess of indistinct horror. No, this is not a good anti-war movie, this is a wasted effort of utmost low