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Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Really enjoyed this film and I'm not much of a war person. It was a really refreshing take on a moment in our history, focusing on the very personal intimacy of mate-ship among soldiers, as opposed to the fanfare of explosions, gunfire and whiz bang visual effects.It was nice to see a war film that peeked into the lives of the women left at home as well. When I think of the world wars and tragic loss of men involved in the conflict, I must admit I've never contemplated the hardships that women endured back on the home front.This film offers a glimpse into what I've learnt to be an extremely common issue women were faced with whilst their men fought on the front lines. The limited options and primitive medical practices available to women back then are a frightening realisation of how helpless females must have felt living in that era. To have little to no control over their lives, let alone the ability to remedy bad choices is profoundly confronting.A great take on a very sad era.

I don't remember the last time I watched a movie as bad as this. The action sequences are poor. There was no bond between the audience and the actors. I didn't much care which ones lived and which ones died. From the beginning to the end, the accents were terrible (especially the Irish accent - although I knew there was something off with the others too). I should have read the IMDb info before watching this movie and then I would have figured out that it was an Aussie movie with no Irish or English actors in this production. Anyway, Im not going to waste any more time on this movie. Its 1hr 40mins of my life that I wont ever get back again. A total waste of time. I was Bored to death.

An excellent, well-shot indie film. Watching this film, you would not have guessed this is not a large scale big budget Hollywood film that was shot in rural Australia. Having studied the World War 1 conflict in history not too long ago, this film has really captured the essence of what it must have been like fighting in the trenches. The grimy faces, water logged trenches, the fear of bombs and bullets flying over your head. And although some viewers find that the antagonists to be the Germans, I feel that it is the heartless British lieutenant who is ordering the men to their deaths the real villain of the story. There are two main threads of narrative; the main being the tale of survival and mateship as Sergeant Major Arthur and Private O'Leary attempts to drag a legless Corporal Jennings back to safety from No Man's Land. And the second plot, the heart-wrenching tale of Aruthr's wife Grace, who is back home in England, as she decides whether to keep the unborn child of another man and face Arthur's pain of her betrayal when he returns, or risk everything to spare him. She enlists the help of Nurse Eve for the operation, who at the end we find out is the fiancé of Corporal Jennings.These two stories become interwoven as the story is untold; as Jennings lays dying in Arthur's arms, Arthur's own wife is dying at the same time in Eve's arms. This scene cuts between the four characters, unaware of what is happening to the other. After the war, when Arthur and the audience discover Eve is Jennings fiancé, the brutality of war for both those who are fighting at the front and those back home becomes apparent.

Not perfect, but it's more accurate to what WW1 would have been compared to all of these Americanized "real" war movies, except for one part when the Private is running and is never hit...until he is blown up in the trench. I felt explosions and bullets were real, and I didn't see anyone getting their leg blown off and saying "It's a flesh wound!" Real war is being hit with one bullet, not like these other movies that have multiple bullet wounds and they walk away. The story of the wife, I felt could have been left out, even though it added irony and drama to the typical war theme, but I wanted it to be a war movie only. Also, there could have been more battle scenes perhaps. Dialogue was okay, although it seemed a tack calm for war, truth be told. There were a few cheesy lines.