How to make a movie with every possible cliché

Rating: 2/10 (25 March 2015)

This movie is a perfect example of what a storyline means for mainstream commercial cinema. You know that graphic with the ups and downs, how the story should go from positive to negative, how the protagonist should suffer and then recover, so on and so on? Here it is, LITERALLY, in the worst most obvious possible way.
I can't remember the last movie i saw with all the possible clichés you could put in it, seriously, they don't even try to disguise it. The melodramatic music, the flashbacks, the suffering of the characters, the happy ending you can see coming from the first minutes, i mean, this movie has it all, all i say. I was shocked with the pace of the editing in the beginning, Russel wanted us to know everything right away, stuffing the needed information to start of the story plus the sad music on top wrapping it all up in the first 15 minutes, from then on it's all about his journey, which starts when he meets the beautiful secondary actress, and right there you know how that is gonna end for them, and believe me, this is no spoiler, it's just really damn obvious.
The editing was awful the entire movie, putting together flashbacks with sentimental moments between him and the actress so that later you can understand that they are close enough to run away together, shame it was so fast edited and terribly "i've-seen-this-a-thousand- times-before". The directing had a lot to say about it, with some crazy framings, like some parts where the camera starts zooming into people faces, what's the idea there Russel? The color correction was so saturated at times, and so not saturated at times that at a certain part of the movie, i even thought that maybe i had downloaded an unfinished version of the movie, and damn i really wish i had. Editing should be something like a referee role in a football match, the least you notice him, the better, and in this movie it was all about the referee, i mean, yellows and red cards every five minutes.
The story about the Gallipoli campaign is very interesting, but this was a total mission failed with clichés after clichés, the most awful editing and storytelling i've seen in a long time. The 2 out of 10 rating goes for the costume designs and the nice landscapes they shot the movie at. I decided to watch this movie because i like Russel and i trust a lot IMDb ratings, but the 7.7 it had is still a complete mystery to me.
I don't like not-to-recommend movies, even if they're really bad like this one, it will help set a bar on your mind on how money can be wasted and how not so bad other movies you've seen before were.