Mark Follis

Strictly for younger viewers who are happy to live with the show's cartoon-like lack of realism and increasingly empty-headed characterisations. Started well, but the obsession between Eve and the assassin is unbelievable. Frankly, I just ceased to care.

Brilliantly evocative, both of the mentality of the soldiers and the horrors of war. Left me feeling sad for their suffering and their treatment by civilians on their return. Particularly revealing was how the British soldiers regarded their German captives: with respect and genuine liking. Ultimately an anti-war film, it's only failing perhaps was not to mention the large number of people who were conscientious objectors when conscription came into being in 1916. An amazing film nonetheless and an important history lesson for all.

A half funny comedy that occasionally surprises, but is ultimately a middle-class privileged say nothing event. There's an underlying social elitism here which isn't actually justified by the socially complacent characters.

I was touched by this tale because of its "little man" approach to government indifference to the people it used to do its dirty work. Nothing new there, but worth repeating. What annoys me with this type of film is how it concentrates solely on the American side of things. It's not propaganda, but it serves to promote concepts of American "decency" without looking at the sheer misery its policies cause to foreign people. One shouldn't forget that the same soldiers it honours were also killers fighting a war that wasn't theirs in a country they decimated with Agent Orange and ultimately failed everybody, including themselves.