Foxhole

We watched this at work. My coworker and I are both veterans, and his comment was, "John Wayne is rolling in his grave". Seems like the writer/director spent a lot of time with the visual and mood he was trying to convey, but he probably should've hired a technical advisor. It's supposed to be a military movie, but the interaction between the men wasn't very realistic. A lot of arguments that wouldn't happen. A lot of sitting around looking at each other that wouldn't happen. We were laughing at parts that, I suspect, weren't supposed to be funny. Civilians probably thought it was good. If you want a good military movie, rewatch The Battle Of The Bulge.

I hate wars but I don't mind watching war films (especially documentary pieces of things you normally never hear about...or are told). Many war films contain about 70%-90% of factual history (except the point that mostly all the American films tell their tales as though it was America, and only America, that were the victors of Europe of WW2...an insult to all the other western allies who died at that time). This one however?

I am currently 2 for 2 in the losers stakes as I have just finished watching another WW2 war film before this one and, it was another one with a completely inaccurate title for its feature. I mention this to all as there was not a sight of a single battlefield foxhole in any of the 3 war story segments shown. The last segment should have used Vietnam, instead of Iraq; as I am pretty sure the last foxholes dug there - in a wartime situation - was very likely by the British 8th Army, during WW2.

As the very first reviewer has mentioned, the uniforms were too fresh and clean; something that would only be so on your first couple of days or so. It was too dirt and mud ridden to keep a uniform looking clean.

I'm certain that almost every subject under the sun would have been talked about, at some point or another, in the wartime foxholes of history. Especially why they were where they were and is God real if he allows something like war to happen! In these three story outlines however they only argued and squabbled among themselves; but in segment 1 it was mentioned about why are we here...and that's all!

I think that the title could have been more like, "A TALE FULL OF HOLES" because it was - except for the uniforms 😄 - with no entertainment that would keep you glued to the spot.

I give it a 1 star for the cinematography on the whole, and 1 star for good camera work in the WW1 Black & White segment. Other than that I thought it was a poor offering!

The other reviewers aren't giving this movie enough credit. It's an excellent script with good solid performances, well-directed and well-shot. My wife and I saw it on Kanopy and we both liked it a lot. It had been on our watchlist for a long time. While my wife was out of town, I was scrolling through our watchlist and there was a couple of times when came to this movie and I thought, we're never going to watch this, I might as well delete it. And I started to...but then I thought, better not, we might want to watch it at some point. I'm glad I didn't delete it. Yes, it's an anti-war movie set during three different wars, with the same actors/characters being carried over. I think the writer/director did a first-rate job of conveying what it was he wanted to say. Give it a shot.