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Sadly Over-hyped

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

In 1915, the Gallipoli campaign was commenced. Dictating the Australian version, two young runners, Frank and Archy, enroll in the Australian army, and, as a result, are sent to fight in Gallipoli.The emotional aspect of this film is incredible, due to a great script and performances by Mark Lee and Mel Gibson, who play the two protagonists. With more historical accuracies than inaccuracies, "Gallipoli" is an emotionally heartfelt film, bound to bring a tear to your eye and pull your toughest heart-strings. Mel Gibson is particularly spectacular, as the reluctant youngster soon succumbing to peer pressure.It is debatable whether this is considered a war film to some, as the movie is about Frank and Archy in Gallipoli, and how they are effected by the war, instead of Gallipoli, with many random characters involved. For example, "Gallipoli" is a character film set in the war, whereas "Dunkirk" is a war film with characters.

This movie showed a brutally honest depiction of the tragedy that was the fateful Gallipoli campaign. The futility of trench warfare, the grim conditions that the soldiers unfortunate enough to be there had to endure and the sheer ferocity of the Turkish defence were some of the more accurate I've seen in war movies. The fateful Battle of the Nek was a faithful depiction, it shows an Australian Colonel, not a British officer as some think, ordering the the ill-fated attack to continue despite the first waves being massacred within seconds of going over the top which sadly is what happened. The only real issue I had with the movie was the absence of the Royal Welch Fusiliers who also suffered heavy losses at the Nek on that fateful day. The story is compelling and although the two main protagonists are fictional, their story is not too far from the truth, the naive romantic ideals young men at the time had of the war, it would be over by Christmas, it would be a picnic etc, then when the nightmare of reality hit home was again excellently done. The ending is one of the saddest and emotional I've seen when the soldiers know what's coming. All in all this movie is such an honest depiction of a period which some have tried to forget and one to own if your into history and war movies.

I remember being excited about watching this film before I actually sat through it, and when the end credits finally appeared, I knew I had been conned! 'Birth of a Nation' it was not, and even the totally rubbish 'Objective Burma', would have given it a run for its money! Just the title 'Gallipoli' promised so much and delivered so little, but that is just one failing in this bargain basement, Brit bashing, Fenian-friendly, pile of steaming horse manure! In a campaign in which the overwhelming majority of casualties were British, this film denigrates their role to the basest level, featuring them as fools and manipulators who are eager to sacrifice the flower of Australian youth. The tired old cliché of Anglophobia in Australian cinema has not dated well. We know much more about the Gallipoli landings now, and this film only makes a cringing, sentimental nonsense of what was, no more than a military failure! To watch this film on the centenary year of the Dardanelles operation makes the sneering and petty minded direction seem all the more insulting, not only to the British, but also the Indian, French, NZ and African troops who also died in great numbers. In reality the ANZAC troops were often as not, born in Britain and were eager to fight for King and Empire, but as usual the truth is substituted for a wishy-washy tale of a poor little Irish Catholic boy, who has an inbuilt hatred for the 'evil' English. The commanders - (all portrayed as chinless Brits in this film), may have been ill suited for purpose, but they were no worse than any other allied General's of the time (remembering this type of warfare had never been experienced previously). The film's epic-like title betrays the viewer's expectations in a unforgivable act of deception!...8 months, 10 Nations, and 570,000 men, whittled down to 15 minutes, 1 Nation and 40 men! The scope of the film is limited to an Australian desert location which stands in for a fake Egypt (complete with hardboard pyramids) and an unconvincing Turkey.There are no portrayal's of the landings or anything much to do with the events other than a cheap series of trench discussions and a paltry battle scene involving maybe 40 people (including 5 Turks/blacked up Auzzies). This type of budget warfare pays no tribute to any of the combatants, including the 'heroic martyrs' of Oz! In my opinion the only film to make me want to vomit more, is the appalling Canadian movie 'Passchendaele' which makes a similar mockery of the dead! Mel Gibson's acting is - as usual, pretty bad and the other characters don't have much meat to chew on, which takes away any empathy you may want to feel. Overall Gallipoli should be watched as a piece of propaganda and no more!

I watched "Gallipoli" on a whim one night when it aired on TCM as part of a tribute to Australian cinema, and found it to be a moving film about the ultimate horror and waste of World War I.Mark Lee and Mel Gibson play two young sprinters who meet as competitors, become friends, and then enlist together in the war. Not taking much seriously, they both think serving will be a bit of a lark, and indeed it begins that way, with a lot of carousing, drinking, whoring and some goofball antics during combat training. But then they arrive at their destination, and the reality of what war actually looks and sounds like begins to sink in.This movie does a great job of showing that transition from young man bluster and naive belief in the good of a cause to scared everyman, being sent out to certain death for reasons he can no longer comprehend. The film is paced very well, and the trench warfare scenes at the film's end are so expertly juxtaposed with the buddy movie that precedes them, that the effect on the audience is that of a punch to the groin. The very end is devastating and haunting in a way few movies anymore would have the guts to be.Peter Weir directed this before he became known for more popular and Oscar-baity films like "Witness" and "Dead Poets Society." Grade: A