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Journey's End

  • 20172017
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  • 1h 47m
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Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, and Sam Claflin in Journey's End (2017)
RC Sherriff's Journey's End is the seminal British play about WW1. Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously awaiting their fate.
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Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by mentally-disintegrating young Officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by mentally-disintegrating young Officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by mentally-disintegrating young Officer Stanhope, as they await their fate.
IMDb RATING
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    • Saul Dibb
    • Simon Reade(screenplay)
    • R.C. Sherriff(novel)
    • Vernon Bartlett(novel)
  • Stars
    • Paul Bettany
    • Sam Claflin
    • Stephen Graham
    • Saul Dibb
    • Simon Reade(screenplay)
    • R.C. Sherriff(novel)
    • Vernon Bartlett(novel)
  • Stars
    • Paul Bettany
    • Sam Claflin
    • Stephen Graham
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 103User reviews
    • 73Critic reviews
    • 73Metascore
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    Sam Claflin at an event for Journey's End (2017)
    Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, and Sam Claflin in Journey's End (2017)
    Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, and Sam Claflin in Journey's End (2017)
    Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, and Sam Claflin in Journey's End (2017)
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    Paul Bettany
    Paul Bettany
    • Lieutenant Osborne
    Sam Claflin
    Sam Claflin
    • Captain Stanhope
    Stephen Graham
    Stephen Graham
    • 2nd Lt. Trotter
    Tom Sturridge
    Tom Sturridge
    • 2nd Lt. Hibbert
    Alaïs Lawson
    Alaïs Lawson
    • Angele
    Andy Gathergood
    Andy Gathergood
    • Sergeant-Major
    Jack Riddiford
    Jack Riddiford
    • Pvt. Evans
    Adam Colborne
    Adam Colborne
    • Private Graham
    Elliot Balchin
    • Private Peters
    Theo Barklem-Biggs
    Theo Barklem-Biggs
    • Private Watson
    Asa Butterfield
    Asa Butterfield
    • Second Lieutenant Raleigh
    Derek Barr
    Derek Barr
    • Captain Reid
    Nicholas Agnew
    Nicholas Agnew
    • Corporal Pincher
    Rupert Wickham
    • General Raleigh
    Miles Jupp
    Miles Jupp
    • Captain Hardy
    Toby Jones
    Toby Jones
    • Private Mason
    Jake Curran
    Jake Curran
    • Signaler Hammond
    Jack Holden
    • Private Turner
      • Saul Dibb
      • Simon Reade(screenplay)
      • R.C. Sherriff(novel) (play)
      • Vernon Bartlett(novel)
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    • Trivia
      Playwright R.C. Sherriff had seen first-hand the effect of years of war on his friends and knew the fear and terror of waiting for an impending attack, waiting for his journey's end. The characters in the play are a reflection of the men Sherriff had served with in the 9th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment.
    • Goofs
      As the men are told to "Stand Down" most of them have their chin strap under their chins. Any experienced soldier would not do this because if a shell landed close the concussion would rip the helmet up and rip their faces apart.
    • Quotes

      Lieutenant Osborne: Every little noise up there, makes me feel sick.

    • Connections
      Featured in Projector: Journey's End (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      Elevation
      Written and performed by Hildur Guðnadóttir

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    8/10
    A century on: a timely reminder of the futility of trench warfare.
    "Journey's End" makes for a claustrophobic and tense movie experience. It's quite clearly a film adaptation of a stage play, but it's a surprise (to me at least) that the stage play - penned by R.C. Sherriff - dates back to 1928 and was first performed in London by a young Laurence Olivier.

    You might say "A filmed stage play? Hm... I'm not sure about that". But actually, it works really well, adding brilliantly to the claustrophobic nature of the piece but - more importantly - largely eschewing "action scenes" to focus in on the dramatic relationships between the officers in their dugout and the men in the trenches above.

    The plot is a simple one. Set in the spring of 1918 (arguably, the movie might have been even more powerful had its release been delayed by about 6 weeks), Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin, "Me Before You", "Their Finest") leads a company of men marching into position in a trench near Saint-Quentin, Aisne for a six-day tour of duty. Given they are one of 1,800 such companies on the Western Front, it's unfortunately their bad luck that the German's "spring offensive" is forecast to happen imminently. As Stanhope's CO (the excellent Robert Glennister, "Live by Night", TV's "Hustle") makes clear, and as the film's title might also suggest, this is forecast to be a one-way trip.

    With immaculate timing, squeaky-keen young recruit Lieutenant Raleigh (Asa Butterfield, "Hugo") uses his brass-connections to join the company, since he knows Stanhope from his schooldays. Indeed, Stanhope is his sister's beau. But Raleigh soon discovers that Stanhope is no longer the 'affable chap' he was....

    Butterfield is marvelously cast as the perky new recruit, all wide-eyed and eager on arrival but completely ill-equipped for what he is to see and experience in a confined society being stretched beyond breaking point. Claflin as well is superb, and must have spent hours in front of a mirror trying to perfect his haunted expression. The range of emotions he delivers through those eyes is just extraordinary. Finally rounding out the star-turns of the officers are Paul Bettany ("Avengers: Age of Ultron") as the avuncular Osborne and Tom Sturridge ("Far From The Madding Crowd") as the shell-shocked and useless Hibbert.

    Those of you familiar with the splendid "Black Adder Goes Forth" will know the comic role played by Tony Robinson as Baldrick with his strange culinary concoctions. In this film Toby Jones ("Atomic Blonde", "Dad's Army") fills that role and similarly has some comic lines to add - just a touch of - much needed light-relief to the tension.

    The film has a necessarily melancholic feel, but (for me) it's rather over-egged by the sonorous cello score by Natalie Holt and Hildur Gudnadóttir. (Again, reflecting our different tastes, I'll point out that my wife found the music fitting and not as annoying and intrusive as I did).

    Director Sean Dibb (Suite Française) has here delivered a tense and very well-executed movie that ably demonstrates the British "stiff upper lip" in public - and the weak whiskey-soaked psychosis in private - of men under the most unbearable stress imaginable. Recommended... but go expecting something that's more drama than World War One 'action'.

    (For the full graphical review, please visit bob-the-movie-man.com. Thanks.)
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      • February 2, 2018 (United Kingdom)
      • United Kingdom
      • English
      • German
      • French
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      • Wales, UK
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      • Fluidity Films
      • British Film Company
      • Third Wednesday Films
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