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1917

Year:2019
Country:International
Language:English
Genre:Drama, War
IMDB:IMDB Page
Rating:8.0  Rate
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DirectorSam Mendes
Selected CastGeorge MacKay as Private Schofield
 Dean-Charles Chapman as Private Blake
 Mark Strong as Captain Smith
 Andrew Scott as Lieutenant. Leslie
SoundtrackThomas Newman


On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

1917 - Universal - Canada (2020)
Blu-ray

1917 - Universal - Japan (2021)
Multi-Format

1917 - Universal - USA (2020)


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Description: Title Screen (Trailer)


Comments and Reviews
 
Magic Marmalade
24th May 2020
 Rated 8/10
You get those movies sometimes that give the wrong impression of themselves in the ad campaign and marketing, and this is one of those.

I think the reason I didn't look any further into it at the time is that it just felt like a band-wagon movie, cashing in on other recent war movies made to "commemorate" (not cash in on.. ahem) notable anniversaries regarding the two world wars.

I just got the impression it was a paint by numbers war flick that someone at studio HQ said: "We need another one of those war movies to sell!"

...But thankfully, it's not.

It's more than that, by being, in a very particular way.... less.

As Henry's comment tells you, if you are expecting a massive epic scale set piece with thousands of extras fighting on the beaches across multiple story threads, then you will be disappointed, because this is instead, more of an Odyssey type of movie...

... or perhaps, an ordeal movie about two soldiers trying to get through to a front line position by morning, to deliver an order to stop an attack that would see swathes of British soldiers walk into certain death resulting from an enemy trap designed for this purpose.

(Sounds a bit like Gallipoli doesn't it?)

As such, it follows just these two as they go through all manner of horrors to get where they need to go...

And it really follows them!

The first twenty minutes are presented as one single shot close up to them as if from just one single, floating camera, and it barely changes camera angles after that... so you're right therewith them in "real time" (some liberties are taken with time, but most are accounted for with some plot devices) from field to front line.

It feels, therefore, less epic, and more personal.

More sweary, gruesome, and shocking in places than your average WW1 film (War Horse it ain't!)

But certainly worth watching.. excellent film.

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cannyuk SUBS
19th Jan 2020
 
 

 
henry29
17th Jan 2020
 Just finished watching this. And It wasn't what I was expecting It to be. I would say a little Disappointing given the subject. It wasn't a "Saving Private Ryan" at all. H.
 


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