The Great War

Very poor. Combine pure cheese with laughable acting and amateur action scenes. Painful to watch.

While this story is an important one that needs to be told, it's just a bad movie all around. The dialogue is hackneyed and trite. The uniforms look too clean and intact, the sets look like they're for a high school play, the acting is weak and wooden, and the whole thing reeks of an amateur production.

This is like a film that someone with a few thousand dollars made with his friends in a local park. Plus, the blatant ripoffs of Saving Private Ryan are obvious.

I really tried to keep watching and wanted to like it, but it was just so bad.

It's just a really bad remake of Saving Private Ryan. The bunker scene without the bunker, the same church scene without the church, the same first meeting of private ryan just without a tank, the same scene deciding to fight just without a rustic French village and if i'm not mistaken the same music and dialog. Obviously the writer/director would get a F if this was a school assignment which it looks like, but in the real world I'm surprised he hasn't been sued by Steven Spielberg.

I understand why people are giving this movie straight 10 and not judging that but even dialogue between officer and soldiers feels off and too formal. I saw one enemy soldier dying with a smile on his face... Of course there are negatives but movie itself is still okay but there are some points which doesn't let you enjoy it as much as it could be done.

Just skip the positive reviews, reading those for this movie is just a waste of time, actually just like watching this movie, just don't bother as there are tons of better war movies. The acting isn't good at all, below average, mediocre at best. The two names Ron Perlman and Billy Zane are just poster fillers, they have minor roles. But besides the acting it's the story that is really poorly executed, maybe it could have been something with a good director and better actors, but in this case it's pretty lame. The fighting scenes are just ridiculous, it just feels like somebody was filming a bad reenactment of a battle in the woods, or filming his friends playing paintball or so. If any of those characters would have served in the war they would be dead after one second. Just skip this movie, trust me it's not worth your time.