Sam Mendes’ WWI epic 1917 is a meandering, maudlin film filled with manufactured pathos.
Mendes and screenplay cowriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns somehow concluded that the fight to the finish, trench and gas warfare of the first World War wasn’t fertile enough to elicit genuine emotional reactions.
Instead, they trotted out a pair of lads upon a Hobbit-like quest who commit inane misjudgments whilst taking their sweet time to deliver an urgent message against a backdrop of sterile trenches and vacant French fields.
Heartstrings are pulled with all the subtlety of a chainsaw, while the story goes absolutely no where slowly. The musical score is adequate - fans of Pink Floyd will be especially pleased.
As for reality, fear not - that’s been banished for a single long shot, or something? Fans of that one film where that weird guy walked around the Hermitage will adore this.
Submitted January 13, 2020 at 05:09AM by OneThingReal https://ift.tt/36O7lKb
