Eleven

How anybody can rate this 10/10 or call it a masterpiece is beyond me. Purely out of respect, this should never have been released as it's impossible to take it seriously, despite it being such an awful time in world history. The end of the first world war, all crammed into 79 minutes with such unconvincing acting, at times it was hard to believe this was actually a serious film. Embarrassing at times to watch.

Poor acting, over dramatized, crappy movie scene sets. Rifles sound like a child's cap gun from 1957. No storyline really. Generals depicted as crazed disturbed puppet masters. About as u realistic acting to the situation as possible. Poor taste in music...mismatched. a nurse breaks out in song and has a modern tone and vibrato, totally inappropriate to the time. Movie ends with a modern sappy song. Gives zero justice to the men and women that laid their lives on the line during g WWI.

We tried to watch this but when they fail to get the simple details right, for example British Servicemen NEVER salute without any headgear, yet a junior officer does this ten minutes in, my wife pointed out that he had holes in his tunic where his regimental badges should be.

Then the senior officer, taken directly from Blackadder goes forth, at least that was satire. The makers obviously thought no one under 40 would have seen Blackadder.

What could have been a good story was ruined, we gave up after 15 minutes.

This low budget film depicts the closings hours from midnight to 11am on last of WW1. It captures sin small scale view the lives lost to combat action along the front line. Don't expect high budget effects this film focuses the impact of company to small group of soldiers.

Eleven is a very moving film, showing the last few hours of World War 1. The fear felt by soldiers was well captured, as was the sense of comradeship. It was great to see such attention to historical and period detail in the sets and uniforms and the camera work was superb.

All the actors were excellent, with standout performances by Sean Cronin as Friedrich Muller and Jo Stone-Fewings as Captain Mullen. A special mention must also be made of the wounded French soldier, Jerome Bernard, played by the very talented Guillaume Rivaud, who so beautifully captured the look of thoughtful sorrow and acted with great compassion and feeling.

It was fitting to include the powerful 'soldier's prayer' at the beginning and one can easily imagine that many prayed such a prayer on the battlefields. It was a great shame therefore that the name of Jesus was taken in vain several times during the film.

All in all, this film was a well-made reminder of the horrors of World War 1 and the friendships that must have been made during that time.