Michael Evans

Jim See's review of this on this site is bang on, but I'd give it one more star than he does because the main character Paul is nicely acted. In fact all the young lads who join straight from school are great. But yes if you've read the book, you'll hate this pointless rewriting of it. They've missed out all the humour (because it's somehow wrong to suggest that there's any humour in war?) and the key passage in the book when Paul goes home on a week's leave to find his mum and sister no longer understand him and he wants to get back to his mates at the front - not because he loves war but because they do understand him. As for the film's ridiculous ending, when Paul suddenly becomes an action hero killing machine - shame on the movie makers. They completely missed the point!