Unreal and egotistical

Rating: 2/10 (3 June 2015)

Sorry, spoilers are necessary to illustrate why this film is so poor.
The world revolves implausibly around the main character. For example, despite being essentially a nobody, the main character (who we shall refer to as superfarmerdadman) induces the regional British military big cheese to personally attempt his deportation. When the love interest appears it's immediately obvious she will have to fall for superfarmerdadman, because she won't stop staring at him. The romance is flat and without character, something the film maker evidently noticed since much of the courting dialog is muted and replaced with music.
A dramatic soundtrack is often used to cover laughably rubbish scenes, for example the horseback escape from the train ambush - which is just shots of 2 blokes riding across the countryside (with an amusing few seconds where we get to stare at a herd of sheep while listening to the end of the world in classical music form).
To the reviewers who gave 9 stars: what do you make of the scene where the Greek army, during an attack on a village, inexplicably single out him and his son, and chase them across the countryside with artillery? Why, in a complex historical setting, is the world turned moth-like towards the shining light of our superfarmerdadman? It smells of childish fantasy to me. The whole film appears an exercise in placing the lead character (played by the director) into the most flatteringly heroic and tragic role possible.