Learn Nothing of that Conflict

Rating: 3/10 (10 August 2015)

The film, in part, tells that part of WWI, around 1915, involving U.K. forces storming the beach at Anzac Cove; part of the Gallipoli Campaign to fight Ottoman forces. U.K. forces were militarily superior with about equal numbers with the Turks, but they might have been a bit apathetic as they end up losing. Story centers on the Australian contribution as represented by the three sons of an Aussie farmer. Today, still a significant Australian remembrance.
Negatives: 1. Although a small attempt was made to show that there is always another side in a war, what we get of the Turks is just movie stuff. The real history of this conflict with hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded is poorly treated. 2. A good part of the film is filled with the usual romantic encounter and discord and distrust. The female part in the movie is unrealistically attractive for the role, thus not too believable. Tossed in is the customary plot hook of her engaging young son to reel in the Aussie who, of course, had lost his wife. 3. More obstacles are placed in our hero's search for his lost sons with unusually cold bureaucratic barriers being placed in his way - to be overcome, of course. Again, not believable. 4. Dialogue was inane. Directing was disjointed in that the film used excessive numbers of flashbacks to explain what could have been given at the beginning and resulted in better continuity to the story. Acting was too predictable and a bit stereotyped. Ending also became too predictable.