TLDR: It's fine, but suffers from the standard bland big budget problems.
Storywise, It's interesting to note that WW1 was very much a war of endless waiting, confusion, and dread. The great misery and lack of real "bad-guys" leading to The Lost Generation's aimlessness. The movie really side steps this by having messengers with a very clear mission to run across the battlefield in 8 hours. It leads to very tense action. The movie tries to acknowledge this with various…
The fight scene is awesome if you like video game cinematics.
Everything else is repulsive enough for me to say I truly hate this. A pointless conflict that goes nowhere, edgy rape backstory, sudden exploitative lesbian romance. Just turn it off and burn it.
Raves against "men" and unapologetically gloats about how crazy "women" including herself are. It not only offers nothing, it's delivered with the elegance of a cheese grater.
Highlights include:
- Telling men to flat iron their balls because they look digusting and are embarrassing
- Suggesting that breast implants were invented to degrade women rather than to help breast cancer victims
- Mocking men for having... change jars?
- Ridiculing any kind of non-vanilla sex and boasting about herself laying…
