Before Dawn

I saw this movie today and it wasn't bad at all.

I'm a fan of war movies, more like war movies based on true stories, and I can't say I was disappointed watching this.

It's not a movie that people are used to seeing and I'm talking about the fact that it's not an action movie with a lot of battles and more. It's actually a kind of drama film where you can see what young Australians were dealing with in the First World War, what a big problem the equipment in the trenches was and the fear that young people went into.

I enjoyed it, it was, again, a decent film and I learned a few things about ANZAC and for some newbie actors and a young producer with 10 million dollars. Budget and a production with over 1000 people, it was a great job.

The whole time I watched this film, there wasn't really a moment that I felt invested in it. You couldn't sympathise for a single character besides the protagonist. As soon as you met one character, they would either die or become irrelevant to the story. I understand that this film is based on a true story. However, if you have to show in the opening credits that you practically did everything to make the film (directing, producing, etc.) to the audience watching. It probably isn't going to be that good of a film. The story itself was a bit interesting, but I wouldn't call this film a must see.

Lots of new young faces in this movie. Depicting WW1, trenches, mud, rain, snow, rain & more snow. The young boys want to be men on the battlefield and do not understand the consequences of the adventure they thought would await them.

The thing that kept bugging me through the whole movie was the fact they were in mud up to their elbows, yet they were clean-shaven, and freshly cut hair.

Levi MIller is a good up-and-coming actor, and has a good list of past work on here. So will likely see him a lot in the future in movies.

Overall not a bad movie, makes you think about what these young men went through in the trenches over 100 years ago. You can see why on returning home they would have struggled to life before the war. We know now about PTSD, not back then.

Sad to see that in the US & Canada it only returned $743 on the opening weekend. Shows that it was not marketed very well.

I gave this movie a 6/10 just.

It's harmless and tells the story of war many others have told.

It felt lazy and miss directed. The acting seemed very wooden, however this could have been due to the miss direction.

The trenches did not look real and the cinematography was average at best.

This Movie never got me gripped into believing I was at war with them. I Simply was not bothered and felt no emotion for any of the characters.

Their was no main story line or historical battles, just skipping through years at an accelerated speed.

Looking past the negatives, I love a WW1 movie and I preferred to have watched it rather than not.

Give it a go on Netflix or prime l, certainly not Cinema quality.

I saw this movie in the cinamas yesterday and thought it was very good, they did make a few mistakes but they were minor ones and also gun laws here are very strict so for them to get any kind of machine gun into Australia would have been difficult, they did a great job and the critics probably aren't even from australia hence the bad reviews.

Overall 10/10 i would highly recommend watching this, hopefully it will come to a streaming platform such as Netflix of Amazon Prime Video, the critics should appriciate the effort put into the movie especially since Australia has nowhere near as many war films compared to America or England.