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Journey's End
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
Release : | 2018 |
Rating : | 6.7 |
Studio : | BFI, uMedia, Anyway Productions, |
Crew : | Art Department Assistant, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Asa Butterfield Sam Claflin Paul Bettany Tom Sturridge Toby Jones |
Genre : | Drama Action War |
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if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
This is definitely one of the best war movies I have ever seen. No Rambo actions in this one. The title really depicts what the movies is all about A Journey's End. The brutality of war. Good men die like that . In times of war orders are orders. It is sad. I wonder all this potential gone to waste . Over 60 million people died in world wars. Countries destroyed. I wonder how the world would have been liked if only ... I recommend you see this movie with high quality video . The sound is amazing& the cinematic . The acting is superb . If you think that war is exciting . Think again . You ought to see it. Deserves a better rating.
I like war movies so was particularly looking forward to this ww1 trench warfare epic however it is very, very boring.Essentially the story is centred around a young company commander who has previously been awarded the MC for some act of bravery that we don´t anything about, he spends his days just trying to get through it by drinking and obviously has minor to moderate PTSD.That´s it, nothing else really happens, he gets angry with his younger officers then he is nice to them again and then it is back to drinking and facing his demons.You can safely give this one a miss.
Just got bored with how hard war was for upper and middle class officers. I'm no socialist, but I'm sick and tired of the toll it took on poets and authors. Any film based on their memoires or scribblings can never ever truly capture the horror of WW 1. Many of the lower ranked officers and NCO's deserve acclaim, their losses were proportionally as high or higher than the rank and file. The higher ranks never came to terms with their favoured cavalry was now obsolete, that men can't break through trenches that have well sighted machine guns. They played the final card - attrition, every man was expendable. Awful tactics, but worked eventually.
On first accounts you are immediately grabbed between a british war film and the lack of consciousness of American films. The film holds no relevance if it was original theatre form as a trench wouch perfectly suit the "walls closing in" feeling of a filthy rat infested trench.The rats are over looked, here are men preparing for battle and they cannot kill a rat. At there greatest moment of dehumanising the characters are turned inside out, like a mirror they see their inner consciousnesses. Interesting Bettany was going to play Claflin, but the director found Bettany's display of strength for all the men altering the story. Only at the end when Bettany cuts himself shaving and begins parting with his most important items during a routine raid does one see him begin to ravel. His is the archetype of love in the film, as not as just joung Ask Butterfield quickly bonds with him Claflin the unit commander stating death in the eyes breaks down after Bettany dies and lets his teats pour down Ask, his nephew who he has barely said a word too, Bettany has transcended the fact he will died in that muddy disgusting trench, who the Unit Commander, holding onto hos last threads of sanity, still believes in his drunken delusional state he willl survive. Seems mentally unconsciously safe in the bunker, his only 2 moments of "love" remove him from the setting of the war but won't pivotal plot moments. The mood, the atmosphere, the foreboding the dark walls reflecting of a grim reaper all sum up what the Nolan brother's could have served up in Dunkirk, instead of a rubbish American we all hours of our lives on. The gorgeous Ask Butterfield, Trotter, Mason, and weakling soldiers are allowed character development, evn the stern General you see three brief times, one is allowed he is "I couldn't really give a damn. Two majors errors that ruin movie, calling it"Journey's End" meant as well knew before it started the outcome, even if your knowledge of the Spring German Offensive, and in no army in the world is a soldier allowed to ask the division he wishes to join, especially as such a young age, the alter ego of a brush care-a-less General who know the Germans where attaching in 3 days times would not send his grandson his grave. Paul Bettany such an established actor now is a waking academy award. It is time he receives that award.