The films starts with a prologue: "In the high summer of 1916, in northern France, the British Army prepared for the biggest offensive of the First World War. As hundreds of thousands of troops massed in the rear, waiting for the order to attack, a reduced force was put in place to hold the front line trenches." The movie deals with a group of English soldiers in First Great War ( 1914 to 1918 ) . A story about a team of soldiers' last days before the battle of the Somme in 1916. It is a place 8ft wide, 600 miles long, man-made and God-forsaken. And an epilogue: "On the 1st July 1916--the first day of the Battle of the Somme--60,000 soldiers were killed or wounded, most of those in the first two hours of the attack. It remains the bloodiest day of slaughter in the history of the British Army."
Much acclaimed story about the doomed WWI soldiers in the Somme campaign , it's turns out to be a touching and powerful film , nonetheless includes a predictable but riveting final in ¨Peter Weir's Gallipoli¨style. Dealing with brooding and thought-provoking issues about WWI from sight point of the unsettling soldiers who have to face off their possible death on the trenches or in the battlefront . The flick has an eerie atmosphere , it is in gaudy color , enhanced by the mud of trenches and with excellent settings .Set design is accurately adequate , the movie is enough atmospheric , the dark sludge , the dirtiness and filthiness with the muddy trenches are very well designed . In fact , in preparation for the movie , producers sent the main and support cast to a replica trench for a night, to experience the conditions the British Army suffered . This exciting picture contains friendship , a wonderful relationship among soldiers and a gripping commentary on the wastes of WWI . The flick has its touching moments found primarily in the superb main and supporting performances from then-unknown Daniel Craig ,Paul Nicholls , Julian Rhind-Tutt , Danny Dyer , Tam Williams , Antony Strachan , Cillian Murphy , James D'Arcy , Ben Whishaw and and Tom Hardy can briefly be seen carrying a rifle in two back-to-back frames . The film also helped to launch the international career of some actors to be followed a prestigious international career as Daniel Craig , Cillian Murphy , James D'Arcy and Ben Whishaw.
The motion picture was competently written and directed by British filmmaker William Boyd . He is a writer and producer, known for The Trench (1999), Chaplin (1992) and The Galapagos Affair. He's usually a writer who was awarded the C. B. E.(Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to literature. He has written numerous interesting stories superbly filmed by other directors ,and in his prestigious career deserves special attention his scripts as Cinema as TV , including the following ones : Sword of Honour with Daniel Craig , Tune in Tomorrow..., Chaplin , Man to man, A Good Man in Africa, Mister Johnson, Restless , among others. Rating : 6/10. Well worth watching for the attractive actors playing this WWI sad story .
Much acclaimed story about the doomed WWI soldiers in the Somme campaign , it's turns out to be a touching and powerful film , nonetheless includes a predictable but riveting final in ¨Peter Weir's Gallipoli¨style. Dealing with brooding and thought-provoking issues about WWI from sight point of the unsettling soldiers who have to face off their possible death on the trenches or in the battlefront . The flick has an eerie atmosphere , it is in gaudy color , enhanced by the mud of trenches and with excellent settings .Set design is accurately adequate , the movie is enough atmospheric , the dark sludge , the dirtiness and filthiness with the muddy trenches are very well designed . In fact , in preparation for the movie , producers sent the main and support cast to a replica trench for a night, to experience the conditions the British Army suffered . This exciting picture contains friendship , a wonderful relationship among soldiers and a gripping commentary on the wastes of WWI . The flick has its touching moments found primarily in the superb main and supporting performances from then-unknown Daniel Craig ,Paul Nicholls , Julian Rhind-Tutt , Danny Dyer , Tam Williams , Antony Strachan , Cillian Murphy , James D'Arcy , Ben Whishaw and and Tom Hardy can briefly be seen carrying a rifle in two back-to-back frames . The film also helped to launch the international career of some actors to be followed a prestigious international career as Daniel Craig , Cillian Murphy , James D'Arcy and Ben Whishaw.
The motion picture was competently written and directed by British filmmaker William Boyd . He is a writer and producer, known for The Trench (1999), Chaplin (1992) and The Galapagos Affair. He's usually a writer who was awarded the C. B. E.(Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to literature. He has written numerous interesting stories superbly filmed by other directors ,and in his prestigious career deserves special attention his scripts as Cinema as TV , including the following ones : Sword of Honour with Daniel Craig , Tune in Tomorrow..., Chaplin , Man to man, A Good Man in Africa, Mister Johnson, Restless , among others. Rating : 6/10. Well worth watching for the attractive actors playing this WWI sad story .