If you're the artistical type, and you enjoy great cinematography and the fact that it is 'filmed in one shot', you will probably adore this no doubt special piece of cinema.
However it is almost always my experience that excessive gimmicks like overly great cinematography and filming in one shot and stuff like that, usually just chip away at good, driven story and compelling characters.
So if you're a bit of a cultural buffoon like I am, and you really NEED an ongoing interesting storyline and compelling characters to keep interested, this might just not really be your thing.
But here's where this movie really lost it for me:
At the end, when the struggling corporal finally gets to the officer he has to deliver the message to, OF COURSE, like it is tradition ONLY in movies: the officer is not willing to even look at him a moment and just goes: "Piss off silly idiot, we are attacking here!"
Lol to me that was WAY to weak for this movie man. It happens in almost every movie with this similar storyline while I believe that would NOT happen in real life! Ever! Not today, and not in 1917. If you're a leading officer about to send hundreds of men into deadly battle, unless you're a complete and total moron of course, you will at least take a quick look at what the messenger has to say. That scene just made me laugh out loud man.
So if you're a bit of a cultural buffoon like I am, and you really NEED an ongoing interesting storyline and compelling characters to keep interested, this might just not really be your thing.
But here's where this movie really lost it for me:
At the end, when the struggling corporal finally gets to the officer he has to deliver the message to, OF COURSE, like it is tradition ONLY in movies: the officer is not willing to even look at him a moment and just goes: "Piss off silly idiot, we are attacking here!"
Lol to me that was WAY to weak for this movie man. It happens in almost every movie with this similar storyline while I believe that would NOT happen in real life! Ever! Not today, and not in 1917. If you're a leading officer about to send hundreds of men into deadly battle, unless you're a complete and total moron of course, you will at least take a quick look at what the messenger has to say. That scene just made me laugh out loud man.