Boring drivel

Rating: 1/10 (30 April 2020)

The discrepancy between how important and amazing this film thinks it is, and how little it's actually worth is unbelievable. It's a cheap book on pseudo-philosphy being read to the audience, with action scenes in-between. Everybody in this film is moaning and talking utter nonsense from beginning to end. If you are used to films using the 'show, don't tell' principle, boy are you in for a nasty surprise. this is 'talk nonsense from beginning to end'. The viewer is likely to start screaming at the screen, begging to be allowed to see a single scene without irritating narration. At the end of the day, it is pretentious and utterly vapid drivel. The only thing that kind of worked in the film was the conflict between the colonel, who desperately needs a swift victory, and the captain, who puts the lives of his men ahead of ambition. If the film had been more modest and more smart, this would have been the crux of the plot. But no such luck. This film has a dozen plots and two dozen characters, and it can't decide what it wants to be. What it ultimately is, is a mess.